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Title: Brick and marble in the Middle Ages: notes of a tour in the north of Italy
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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rious Hght could bear to part from so fair an earth!Part, however, it did at last; and then, as we anxiouslyquestioned our driver about our distance from Verona,we found that he did not expect to be there in time toget within its walls before the gates were closed. This,however, would not do, and so, by dint of much talk-ing, we got him to urge on his tired horses, and ingood time we rumbled over a drawbridge and throughk frowning gateway, gave up our passport to anAustrian soldier, drove by a large barrack, then beforethe grand old front of S. Zenone, by the gloomy wallsof the old castle, into a street of palaces, long, narrow,and gloomy-looking, then under a narrow archwayinto the centre of the city, and still on and on until atlast in the narrowest part we turn sharp round_, andthe Torre di Londra opens its hospitable arms for ourreception. We are absolutely at last in Verona, andat last, as we deem, in the closest neighbourhood withthe best Italian pointed work that we are to see.
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S.—CAMPANILE, PALAZZO SCALIGEKI, VERONA. Pa^e 75. Chap. VI. VERONA. 75 CHAPTER VT. Come, go with me—Go, sirrah, trudge about Through fair Verona.—Eomeo and Juliet, act i. scene 2. Verona: Campanile of the Palazzo dei Signori — Sta. Anastasia — Monu-ments — Piazza dell Erbe — The Dnomo — Sta. Maria IAntica —Cemetery and palace of the Scaligers — Domestic architectnre — Piazzadi Bra— The Austrians — Ponte di Castel-Vecchio — S. Zenone —S. Fermo Maggiore — Chapel near the Duomo — Romeo and Juliet —Dwarfs — Wells. We reached Yerona on a Saturday night, and were upearly on Sunday morning, anxious to get a generalidea of the city. But I was no sooner out of my bedthan I saw, over the roofs of the opposite buildings,the glorious campanile of the Palazzo dei Signori, amagnificent, lofty, simple, and almost unbroken pieceof brickwork, rising, I suppose, at least three hundredfeet into the air, and pierced with innumerable scaffold-holes, in and out of whic

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