Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (find matches)
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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arch, with battle-ments above. In the former, the battlements are of singular form,their outer face being curved to a sharp edge at the toj). (Fig. 394.) Many towers now serving as campaniles for churches had also amore or less military or civic character. The tower of San Fredianoat Lucca (see Fig. 204), dating from the early part of the twelfth cen-tury, has a flat roof protected by the forked battlements of the Ghi-bellines, and was doubtless availed of in case of need for the purposeof defence. The great tower of Cremona, called the Torazzo, thehighest in Italy, rising three hundred and ninety-six feet above thepavement, was built in 1283, to celebrate the conclusion of a peacebetween Cremona, Florence, Milan, and Brescia. Of most or all of the towers above mentioned, the severe militaryaspect has disappeared by the changes of which I have spoken. Itis sufficiently manifest in such towers as those of the Palazzo Yecchioat Florence, the Palazzo Pubblico at Siena, and others of like
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Fig. 395. feieua. Porta Kumaua. 240 ARCHITECTURP: in ITALY

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