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Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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)parent break inthe continuity of the design, which was completed in still later timesby the addition of two more stages, each with a group of four open-ings, the two stages enclosed, like the four below, in a single bay with the corl)el-table,and the whole termi-nating in the forkedI)attlements of theTuscan military archi-tecture. At Pomposa, on anisland in the Po, nearFerrara, are the re-mains of a monasteryfounded, according toKicci, before 874. witha church dating fromabout 1115, on whoseHank stands a loftycampanile, littleIvuown, which is, nev-crliieless. one of themost notable towersin Italy. It has ninestories : the faces oftlic wall arc dividedby i)ilastcr strips intobroad and narrowl»anels, terminating incorbcl-tablcs at every stage, iind ilir windows increase regularly innuml)cr from one to four ; the belfry having, however, a single large
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1 l;). I Durr (li ( ,il lirdral. Maiil ii;i. THE LUMIiAKU UUMANKSqUK 175 opening III each face, and tlic tower fiiiiHliin^with four stuinpy pyraniidal pinnncles and aconical spire* ( Ki*;-. 114. ) The simple massive shall of ToireHo liiiii-ishea :i striking instance of an individnal troat-niont. A i)ilaster strip in the niiddlt! of eachface divides the surface into two long- unbrokenvertical panels rising from the ground to thebelfry, without other openings than five nar-row slits oiviuL!: liiiht to the staircase. Tiiebelfry stage is a group of four stilted roundarches in each face, divided by low mid-wallshafts. (Fig. 115.) I have said that the Lombard campanile is,generally speaking, a building by itself, form-ing no part of the church which it accompa-nies, but standing apart and detached from it.There are, however, notable exceptions to thisrule, some of which I have already mentioned,as Novara and San Ambrogio. A more per-fect example is to be seen in S. Abbondio atComo (see Fig.

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