Identifier: brickmarbleinmid00stre (find matches)
Title: Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture -- Italy Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aintings, said to have been executed by GiovanniCariani of Bergamo, or by Girolamo Eomanino of Brescia,extremely striking and attractive in their general style ofcolour and drawing. Tlie most picturesque incidents areillustrations of Colleonis career—the Doge of Yenice givingColleoni his baton in the presence of the Pope, and a finebattle subject. A squalid area for rubbish, children, pigs, cats, and whatnot, is left all round the moat, and beyond this are all thefarm buildings and labourers residences, which go to makeup the tout ensenihle of a great Lombard farmyard. Thesurroundings are not clean nor very picturesque, but thecastle itself has so great an interest, that no one who visitsBergamo should pass it by unseen. The rmiiid cliuicli of San Tommaso in Ijimiiie, do.srrihcd by Mi. CallyKnight as similnr in plan to San Vitnle, at Eavcnna, is only eight miks tothe north of Bergamo, and ought, e(;ually with Malpaga Castle, to be seen.I Iegret that I have never ycit vi>it( d it.
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CiiAP. v.) PAI.AZZUOLO. CHAPTER V. ■ Am 1 in Italy ? Is this the Mincius ?Are those the distant turrets of Verona?And shall I sup where Juliet at the masqueSaw her level Montague, and now sleeps by him? Bogers. Palazznolo—Coccagli(j—Brescia : new and old Cathedrals, Broleitn—Churclics— Donato — DLsenzaiio — T-ago di Garda — Riva — Trent —Verona. Our drive from Bergamo to Brescia was strikingly un-like what we had hitherto been so much enjoying. Mileafter mile of straight roads, between fields so closely plantedwith fruit-trees that one never sees more than the merestglimpse of anything beyond them, are certainly not pleasant;and the hot sun above us, and the thirsty and dry beds ofrivers which we crossed on our way, made us feel glad whenevening drew on, and we found ourselves rapidly nearingBrescia. I made notes at two or three places on the way. AtPahizzuolo is a great circular belfry, ornamented with a largefigure at the top and divers others about its base, bui

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