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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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ects of care and pride to the citizens of Orvieto. The EpiscopalPalace of Viterbo is of the same character, and its rear fagade, whichlooks over the valley, with its great entrance arch, its prodigious but-tresses projecting from the high basement wall, and its fine range oftwo-light pointed windows above, has an immensely picturesqueeffect. (Fig. 444.) At Volterra there are two public palaces known as the PalazzoPretorio and the Palazzo dei Priori, apparently nearlycotemporaneous, and both certainly of the thirteenth cen-tury. The former has a long frontage, with much the same variationin design which we have seen at Todi, and of a uniform height offour stories, though differently divided. The smaller and older por-tion has on the ground floor three high and plain open pointedarches, above which are three stories of comparatively small two-light round-arched windows under round bearing-arches with pointedextrados. In the newer portion the windows are still of two lights. At Volterra.
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Fi<r. 448. Padua. Palazzo della Raffione. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 295 but much larger, with cusped openings and pointed bearing-arches,and the wall is of rou2:h-faced stonework like the Palazzo Vecchio inFlorence. (Fig. 447.) The Palazzo dei Priori is a high, narrowmass of stonework offour stories with two-ligfht windows similarto those just noticed.The cornice iscrowned with heavy-battlements and asquare tower risingout of the roof withsmaller belfry stage.(Fig. 446.) At Massa Marit-tima, on the Mediter-ranean coast, the oldPalazzo Communalestill stands, a highrectangular buildingof stone crownedwith battlements,with the two anglescarried up slightlyabove the main cor-nice. The buildinghas four stages, — the first of open round arches, the others withgood two-light windows, with round bearing-arch and pointed extrados. The Palazzo della Ragione of Padua, though so generally familiar,is so exceptional in character that I cannot pass it by with-out notice. It is of earlier date by more

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