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Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Tribunale, — an edifice of entirely dif-ferent style, having five stories of heavy stone wallspierced by regular and simple windows; while oppo-site this, equidistant at the eastern end of the piazza,rise the two Venetian columns, nobly proportioned,of shining marble, topped by the memorable figuresof the Lion and the Saint. They looked so new to meas to suggest reproduction; but even at that it is evertouching, — this undying allegiance to the Mistressof the Sea, long after her sun of glory has sunk be-neath the horizon. I now faced about westward, and found new beau-ties irradiated by the sunset glow on the piazzasnorthern flank: chief of these, and very exceptional,the long fagade of the Monte di Pieta in the centre,glittering like a kaleidoscope from the vivid colors ofnew frescoes laid over all its wall-spaces from top tobottom. These were recently finished reproductionsof the original paintings, that had utterly faded outin the rains and sun of several centuries. The build-
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VICENZA. BAPTISM OF CHRIST, IN THE CHURCH OF S. COROXA.(GIOVAXNI BELLIXI.) VICENZA THE PALATIAL 121 ing itself was plain, but the mass of gorgeous tableaux,designs, and crowning frieze made it radiant as atropical flower; and closer inspection of the Biblicalscenes depicted, revealed a pleasing excellence of com-position and action, at once decorative and dramatic. To the west of this palace, across a narrow sidestreet, the three-storied Palazzo del Capitanio glis-tened in its heavy arches and wealth of ornament.Cubical in shape, its fagade separated into three di-visions by ponderous Corinthian half-columns of brickreaching from pavement to cornice, its three arches ofthe ground floor opening into a deep, shadowy loggia,— it is a strange building, almost purely a monument,erected by Palladio in 1571. The large windows overthe arcade are adorned with massive balconies, andevery foot of wall-space is covered with terra-cottaworked into figures and designs. This last character-istic i

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