. The builders of Florence . ng ; the case,namely, of those palaces where, not a pair of towers, but, so tosay, a whole quadrangle of them was built at once with its crownof battlements complete. While the towers were thus grouping themselves into the dadi,and the dado in its turn becoming the palazzo, even the principaldetails of this domestic architecture had their own independenthistory and development. Take first the tower basement; thesubstantial bottega of the Florentine merchant. In a dado of manytowers, inhabited by different branches of some one powerful,perhaps aristocratic, family,
. The builders of Florence . ng ; the case,namely, of those palaces where, not a pair of towers, but, so tosay, a whole quadrangle of them was built at once with its crownof battlements complete. While the towers were thus grouping themselves into the dadi,and the dado in its turn becoming the palazzo, even the principaldetails of this domestic architecture had their own independenthistory and development. Take first the tower basement; thesubstantial bottega of the Florentine merchant. In a dado of manytowers, inhabited by different branches of some one powerful,perhaps aristocratic, family, while, as to-day, many of the base-ments, cut off by their solid vaults from the upper storeys, mightbe let as shops to minor artisans or poorer traders, one of greaterimportance, generally at a corner, and so facing on two streets, wasset apart almost religiously as the family Loggia. Here the headof the house saw clients and contadini on business in the morning ;and here his wife sat to receive company in the afternoon. By. *~; Vicolo de&li ftFftote, Hieyporh onI f )t»e le/h, and howHie owe/ mcel^bove • ; FLORENTINE ARCHITECTURE 89 degrees, where there was space available, pillars were set in frontof the corner, and a wide roof stretched over them which found abracketed bearing on the tower wall above or beside the greatdoor-arches of the basement. Thus the Loggia grew by encroach- fljnf??i
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