. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. ^. Onthe west side of the chapel in a white marble tomblies the canonico Rainaldo della Torre, brother ofPatriarch Gastone who is buried at Sta. Croce,Florence, where he died in 1318-9 of a fall from hishorse as he was mounting to return home. Tinscanon was treasurer of the church, and instead ofone of the two. lilies saltire-wise which are thebearings of the family, his shield bears the key sig-nificant of his office. An incised slab commemoratesAlegrancia, mother of these two prelates. Anothersarcophagu
. Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado. ^. Onthe west side of the chapel in a white marble tomblies the canonico Rainaldo della Torre, brother ofPatriarch Gastone who is buried at Sta. Croce,Florence, where he died in 1318-9 of a fall from hishorse as he was mounting to return home. Tinscanon was treasurer of the church, and instead ofone of the two. lilies saltire-wise which are thebearings of the family, his shield bears the key sig-nificant of his office. An incised slab commemoratesAlegrancia, mother of these two prelates. Anothersarcophagus of white marble contains the remains ofPatriarch Ludovico, who died c. 1365, and was the Plate Ch. XXXV.] Aqidleja: the Duomo. 403 immediate predecessor of Marquard von front is decorated with arcading, with ourLord in the centre between curtahis which angelsdraw aside. In the next niches right and left aretwo figures, one in monastic and the other in civildress, both kneeling. Beyond are two angels withthe shield of the family, and in the extreme nichesthe Madonna and the angel of the Annunciation ^ The campanile is said to bear the date mdxlvilliand the words tadevs lvranvs hoc o fecit-. Itis not architecturally remarkable, but its size andheight, and its position in a dead level, make it aconspicuous landmark from a very great campanile of Aquileja and the town of Gradomay both be seen distinctly on a fine day from thehill above Trieste, springing from the thin dark lineon the horizon that marks the delta of the Isonzoand the lagunes and islands by which it is fringed. A handsome museum has lately been built tocontain the antiquities that have been b
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