Identifier: storyofverona00wiel (find matches)
Title: The story of Verona
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wiel, Alethea, b. 1851
Subjects: Verona (Italy) -- History Verona (Italy) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ence of a goodperiod as to style, and that an inscription which itbore in honour of the Emperor Gallienus was not ofthe same date as the archway. This inscription wasformed of bronze letters fastened in relief upon thestone. These letters were removed at a very earlydate, but the marks they left served for decipheringthe words originally placed on the archway. Theconclusion generally arrived at as to the age of thebuilding is that it was probably erected at the time ofVespasian, or of the Antonines—a good period as faras the art of building was concerned—and that in spiteof its inconsistencies it is a remarkable and grand pieceof architecture, forming a link of consummate interestbetween the Verona of to-day and the great RomanEmpire of more than fifteen hundred years ago. Immediately beyond the Porta the street opens out into the Corso Cavour, and some interesting houses and palaces spring up around. There is first the house of the painter Nicolo Giolfino, where some restored 252
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CORSO CAVOUR 253 Corso Cavour and damaged frescoes are all that is left of the decora-tion once lavished on this house by Andrea Mantegna.Opposite in the little square of S. Micheletto stands acolumn surmounted by a lamb, placed there to markthat at one time the Guild of Wool— Arte dellaLana —whose device was a lamb bearing a banner,had their offices there. Immediately beside thecolumn stands the Palazzo Carlotti, a handsomethough somewhat heavy edifice of the decadentperiod, with an ornate door set in a colonnade.This is followed by the Casa Pozzoni, a palace ofVenetian Gothic of the fourteenth century, fine andwell preserved. Facing it is a still finer building, thePalazzo della Banca Nazionale, with beautiful balconies,windows, and decorations, all good specimens of thebest Renaissance date. Further on is the Piazza deiS.S. Apostoli, where a statue to the poet and patriotAleardi (born in Verona in 1812) was put up in 1878,the very year in which he died. The sculptor wasUgo Zann

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