. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. f stone or brick, are severely simple, with few and small openings, and crowned by bold machicolated cornices, surmounted by battlements, either square or forked, as in the older portions of the Castello di Corte at Mantua. Sometimes the battlements are wanting^, as in the ffreat Castello ->. Nuovo, castle of Volterra, recently restored (Fig. 399), and in the*^ ^^ Castello Nuovo at Naples, an immense and lofty pile, rec-tangular in plan, with three gigantic round towers at each end. Thecurtain
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. f stone or brick, are severely simple, with few and small openings, and crowned by bold machicolated cornices, surmounted by battlements, either square or forked, as in the older portions of the Castello di Corte at Mantua. Sometimes the battlements are wanting^, as in the ffreat Castello ->. Nuovo, castle of Volterra, recently restored (Fig. 399), and in the*^ ^^ Castello Nuovo at Naples, an immense and lofty pile, rec-tangular in plan, with three gigantic round towers at each end. Thecurtain walls are naw pierced with six or seven stories of Renaissance windows to fit thebuilding for its mod-ern uses. The castleat Bari is a noble ex-ample of this earlyconstruction. A su-perb square tower ofrough but admirablestone work projects itswhole breadth fromthe castle wall. Walland tower have losttheir cornices andbattlements, and anarcade in the upperportion of the wallhas been filled up, ashave also some smallarched openings inthe tower. The castlestands on a terracewhose high battering. Fig. 400. Bari. Angle of Castle. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 245 wall adds greatly to its imposing effect. (Fig-. 400.) The court stillshows its fine round-arched porch projecting into the square, its mas-siA^e columns having large Byzantine-leafed capitals with broad stone stair in an angle of the court leads to the second storyof the castle.^ As time went on the severit}^ of the earlier castles gave way beforethe softening influences of a less savage state of society ; and nothing
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