Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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VIA DEGLI STROZZI. FLORENCE. 163
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LOGGIA NEAR MERCATO NUOVO. chapels around the choir. The drum is pierced by huge round windows, above it is thedome formed by eight marble ribs converging together, and above that again, the lantern,more than seventy feet high. If this lantern were placed on the flat earth, it would formof itself a beautiful temple,—a marble rotunda in which the taste of the Renaissance, sorich in ornamentation, has begun to display its elegant luxuriance. Brunelleschi the great y 2 ITALY. master, lived to see the completion of the dome which he constructed with a double shell,—one over the other,—to be the admiration of all subsequent ages, and the beginning ofthe lantern, which was carried out in strict accordance with his design. When the last rays of the sun which gild so lingeringly the summit of the Duomohave died away, when the birds have ceased their graceful wheeling and skimming aroundthe mighty cupola, and when the moon begins to pour her magic light over the marble pile,then the town

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