Venice: its history, art, industries and modern life; (1896)
Yriarte, Charles [Émile], 1832-1898. [from old catalog], Sitwell, F. J., [from old catalog] tr · Philadelphia, H. T. Coates & co · leaf 84
e the area of those parts of the buildingwhich contain them. We will have nothing to dowith such extravagant figures as those sometimesquoted—14,000,000 documents, 2,275 archives, 400halls and rooms, etc. These are fanciful figures.Did not the geographer Andrea Balbi, in a rarepamphlet published in… … THE ARCHIVES. 63 geographer through thick and thin, he proves thatthe shelves containing the classed portfolios, ifranged one after another, would form a line half aslong again as the distance between Paris and Ver-sailles ; he affects to show that the separate leaves,numbering approximately…
Art, Italian
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