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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 161

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f peculiar importancein this monument, inasmuch as we know it to be part of the * At least I cannot find any account of it in Maffeis Verona, noranywhere else, to be depended upon. It is, I doubt not, a work of thebeginning of the thirteenth century. Vide Appendix 19, Tombs atSt. Anastasia. 148 THE… … Fio. XXXIV, the system of decoration carried out in this pure and lovelymonument, my most beloved throughout all the length andbreadth of Italy ; —chief, as I think, among all the sepulchralmarbles of a land of mouruingf. THE ARCU LOAD. 149 CHAPTEE Xn.

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