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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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a land-ing with a massivestone gateway with aheavy lintel. (Fig.430.) Of the apartmentsof this interesting pal-ace, which is now mostworthily occupied bya national museumof antiquities of sur-passing value, there remains a fine hall on the principal floor measur-ing fifty-two by eighty-five feet, and sixty feet high, vaulted in largesquare bays.^ Before the end of the thirteenth century the government ofFlorence had got itself organized on the basis of its guilds or trades.At this stage of its history Florence presented perhaps the most com-plete example which the world has seen of an avowed and powerfulcommercial aristocracy. As the prosperity and the greatness of the city had been built upfor three centuries on the foundation of trade and manu-factures, so the pride of the citizens now, at the height of Florenceits greatness, rested on the same foundation. The trade ^^^ ^guilds, or arts, as the Florentines called them, were mostly established ^ R. de Fleury, La Toscane au Moyen Age.
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Fig. 429. Florence. The Bargello. 276 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY

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