Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . * Fig. 60.—Capital of the Cryptin the Eotunda of Brescia—Vlllth Centm-y. 144. m m little ink about it, for, if Conlcro be wrong liere also, Ids wholecastle of conjecture tumbles into atoms. Let us first see what the documents have to say. An ancientritual of the monastery begins thus: Aitno ah iitcanuitioiie 1)1CCCCCCCLIII iiicho-ation fait inoiKi^fcriiDiiiioatrum. . Postedconsecratiim juit perDomhinm Fapain ciinisuis cardinalibti^ proulin veil it ur in chronieissatis autenticis in dictaiiostro


Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . * Fig. 60.—Capital of the Cryptin the Eotunda of Brescia—Vlllth Centm-y. 144. m m little ink about it, for, if Conlcro be wrong liere also, Ids wholecastle of conjecture tumbles into atoms. Let us first see what the documents have to say. An ancientritual of the monastery begins thus: Aitno ah iitcanuitioiie 1)1CCCCCCCLIII iiicho-ation fait inoiKi^fcriiDiiiioatrum. . Postedconsecratiim juit perDomhinm Fapain ciinisuis cardinalibti^ proulin veil it ur in chronieissatis autenticis in dictaiiostro vionasterio. . .Tlie historic memoirsand the diplomas assureus that this monasterywas founded by theLombard Desiderio,conjointly Avith Ansa hiswife, before he ascendedthe throne and thereforeduiing the reign ofAstolfo. These notices,as every one may see,have quite the appear-ance of being authentic,and we ought the morereadily to accept themsince no contradictionis involved in them. We read, in fact, in Anastasius, that in 753 Pope Stephen Lombardy to betake himself to the court of what gives us something to think about is that in thosedoc


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