A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 201
towers. As early as the first quarter of the seventh centurythe earlier basilicas, even those of the time of Constantine, began toreceive the addition of campaniles. The tower of SS. Giovanni ePaolo ^ is mentioned in contemporary records as early as 626. Thetowers of S. Lorenzo in Lucina and S.… … Laterano, St. Peters, S. Giovanniin Porta Latina, S. Croce in Ge-rusalemme, and S. Maria in Cos-inedin (Fig. 109) before the endof the century. In many of theseinstances, however, the towers wereeither left unfinished or were af-terwards raised in height, so thatthe upper stories are of later…
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