. A stained glass tour in Italy. greatest honours, wasa copy of the Pandects of Justinian ! The juristsof Pisa codified the maritime laws on more than oneoccasion ; the one effected in 1075 was approvedby both Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry their Consolato del Mare or written code ofmaritime law, Hallam says, it has defined themutual rights of neutral and belligerent vessels, andthus laid the basis of the positive law of nationsin its most important and disputed cases. It isobvious that in the midst of such a people theremust have existed a sound school of law, and so itwas and so it
. A stained glass tour in Italy. greatest honours, wasa copy of the Pandects of Justinian ! The juristsof Pisa codified the maritime laws on more than oneoccasion ; the one effected in 1075 was approvedby both Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry their Consolato del Mare or written code ofmaritime law, Hallam says, it has defined themutual rights of neutral and belligerent vessels, andthus laid the basis of the positive law of nationsin its most important and disputed cases. It isobvious that in the midst of such a people theremust have existed a sound school of law, and so itwas and so it is, for the University of Pisa and itslaw school is still, after many centuries of honouredand useful existence, recognized as among the bestin Italy. A creditable figure was the sturdy Pisanof the citys Golden Age, carrying his sword and hislaw court to every shore of the MediterraneanSea, then the equivalent of the Seven Seas ofto-day. But it is time for us pilgrims to rememberthe purpose of our visit, so let us make our 130. Pi Pisa way to the Cathedral. There is but little of theold glass left in the unique series of groupedlancets that pierce the west front, a groupingseen nowhere else—four together, then, as theeye descends, three together, two, then singlelancets. Along the lower side of the nave aislesthere is a treat awaiting us, fourteen rectangularwindows, seven on each side, all but three filledwith one scene above and another below, noattempt at canopies—nothing but the telling ofstories, always so engrossing to every age. Hereis delightfully preserved the traditions of the richwarm pot-metal colour which so endears Italianglass to the student. Deeply toned windows ofmany hues, little paint, and as many figures as youlike, regardless of the additional labour requiredto lead them in. Colour and story, aesthetic senseand love of tale-telling, all are gratified. In thesewindows there seems to have been perpetuatedthe story-telling genius which in other countriess
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