. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . have central shafts of stone, but areotherwise entirely of roughbrickwork. The church has akind of double belfry-stage,arcaded similarly in each stagewith round arches. There arealso here the remains of acastle by the river, with a finetower of the same type as theangle-towers of the Castello diCorte at Mantua, and coveredwith a very flat-pitched Casalmaggiore, a town of some importance on thePo, we stopped for dinner; but it was too wet to attempt tolook at the river, and the only note I made was of a large
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . have central shafts of stone, but areotherwise entirely of roughbrickwork. The church has akind of double belfry-stage,arcaded similarly in each stagewith round arches. There arealso here the remains of acastle by the river, with a finetower of the same type as theangle-towers of the Castello diCorte at Mantua, and coveredwith a very flat-pitched Casalmaggiore, a town of some importance on thePo, we stopped for dinner; but it was too wet to attempt tolook at the river, and the only note I made was of a largenew church now in course of erection, Kenaissance in style,and with a large dome, and a choir and transepts, all terminated with circular redeeming feature aboutit was that it was entirelyconstructed in brick with con-siderable care, though pro-bably ere long this will becovered with a coat of plaster,of which modern Italians arenot one whit less enamouredthan are modern a village, the name ofwliich I did not learn, betweenCasalmaociore and Cremona,. mticK wmijow—xkar casalmaggiore. the church had a remarkablygood simple brick camj)unil(.. The belfry windows were CiiAi>. X.] L(,)X(IAD01!E. CREMONA. 263 pointed, of two lights, with n small pierced circle in thehead, the shafts heiug of stone of course. Beneath thestring-courses there was arcading, and the tower was finishedwith three forked hattlements of the Veronese type oneach face, and hehind these rose a circular brick tower was to the south-east of the church. At Longadore we saw another church with a good earlycampanile, of which I made a sketch. This was Komanesque,with angle pilasters, and a central pilaster carried up ashigh as the belfry-stage. The belfry windows were of threelights and shafted. The battlement was most peculiar—acpiarter circle at each angle and a half circle in the centre ofeach side, with a narrow space between them; the wholeexecuted in brick and covered in
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