. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . nd then from Lugano across the Monte Cenere toBellinzona; to my great annoyance I found, however, atMilan that, owing to the long-standing quarrel between theEmperor and the Confederation, no travellers were allowedto pass immediately from the Austrian into the Ticineseterritory, or viee versa, and we were obliged, therefore, todefer seeing the beautiful Lake of Lugano, to go insteadto Laveno, and thence to Bellinzona, by the Lago Maggiore;and our difficulty at Como was to find any true account ofthe time that it wou
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . nd then from Lugano across the Monte Cenere toBellinzona; to my great annoyance I found, however, atMilan that, owing to the long-standing quarrel between theEmperor and the Confederation, no travellers were allowedto pass immediately from the Austrian into the Ticineseterritory, or viee versa, and we were obliged, therefore, todefer seeing the beautiful Lake of Lugano, to go insteadto Laveno, and thence to Bellinzona, by the Lago Maggiore;and our difficulty at Como was to find any true account ofthe time that it would take us to reach Laveno, or of thetime at which we were likely to find the steamer toMagadino. In the end it was decided that we should startat seven the next morning, and accordingly soon after five Iwas out in the piazza taking notes and sketches of my lastItalian building, the Broletto of Como. In general character this is somewhat similar to thelirolotto at r>ergamo, but in real beauty it is scarcely inferiorii) any one building I liavo seen in Italy. Towards the. Chap. XII.] THE BROLETTO. 341 piazza it lias four arches on the ground story, which isdivided from the next stage by an arcaded second stage has three windows only over the fourarches below; and another very noticeable irregularity is,that one of these windows, and that not the central, has apedimental canopy above its arch, and has more shafts thanthe others. The central window has been modernized tosome extent, but this was the Einghiera, and the balconystill remains, though looking more modern than the rest ofthe front. Some of the arches of these windows are verynoticeable ; for though they are semicircular, the back of thestones which form them is cut with a different sweep, soas to produce an outer pointed line, and thus to leavean impression on the eye of absolutely pointed arcaded corbel-table finishes the fafade, or ratherought to finish it, for above this some ba
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