Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . inundation of1333, arose Giottos Campanile and many other beautifulbuildings, and the bridges were re-erected in more solid form.^Then we have the sculptures on the Campanile, so highlypraised by Ruskin, and the first wondrous bronze door of theBaptistery by Andrea Pisano, and the Bigallo and the I/Oggiaof the Signoria (now called del Lanzi), planned perhaps byOrcagna, a
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . inundation of1333, arose Giottos Campanile and many other beautifulbuildings, and the bridges were re-erected in more solid form.^Then we have the sculptures on the Campanile, so highlypraised by Ruskin, and the first wondrous bronze door of theBaptistery by Andrea Pisano, and the Bigallo and the I/Oggiaof the Signoria (now called del Lanzi), planned perhaps byOrcagna, and lastly the beautiful reliefs on his Tabernaclein Orsanmichele. (See Fig. 13 (6).) 1 Three of the four bridges, viz. Vecchio, Trinita, and Carraia, were sweptaway by this inundation. The present P. Vecchio was built in about 1360 byTaddeo Gaddi. Originally it was Roman. Alia Carraia and Trinita bridgesbefore the inundation were of wood. They have been considerably only Florentine bridge that still exists, or rather still existed when I firstsaw it, in 1872, much as it was in Dantes lifetime, is the P. alle Grazie, originallycalled Rubaconte (and so called in Purg. xii) from a Podesta of the year
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