Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 458
same site, and he made of it at once a sumptuous resi-dence and a solid fortress to which was given the name ofGattolo dei Malatesta. It is from there that Verucchiodates his will. The great Ghiberti, the sculptor of the*■• Gates of Paradise, tells us, in his Commentaries that in1400 he made some… … ■J u J LJ L^L\J i_ i L/i viT-JL V i ASTOR, LENOX AND TILBJCN FOUNBATIONSi 3t 1934 L ROCCA MALATESTIANA 355 Poliorcete, skilful in making fortifications, pupil and soonthe rival of Roberto Valturco, the celebrated author of thevolume of Re Militart; he battered down the Gattolo, or,at least, he…
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