Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . ay precious. They also resolved to throw across the littlenaves numerous arcades, which, strengthened by a wall, wouldbecome a solid buttress for the liigh walls of the major this end they projected piedroits from the lateral walls, andothers corresponding with the ranges of pilasters, which assumedthereby the form of a T, and above those they caused the saidarcades to rest, of which two still exist. A considerable step toAvards tlie Romanic system ofcross-vadlts was taken on the dav wh
Architecture in Italy, from the sixth to the eleventh century; historical and critical researches . ay precious. They also resolved to throw across the littlenaves numerous arcades, which, strengthened by a wall, wouldbecome a solid buttress for the liigh walls of the major this end they projected piedroits from the lateral walls, andothers corresponding with the ranges of pilasters, which assumedthereby the form of a T, and above those they caused the saidarcades to rest, of which two still exist. A considerable step toAvards tlie Romanic system ofcross-vadlts was taken on the dav when thev thought tocomplete the organic idea of the transversal arches of by projecting them equally on the great nave, bywhich proceeding they obtained a reasonable and solid chainround the whole edifice. Hence it came about that, in loadingthe pilasters of the naves with four distinct cross-arcades, fourpiedroits requiring to be prepared below, the pilaster, in theensemble from its base, assumed a cruciform shape. Thisimportant advance in Italian-Byzantine architecture has never 266. Fig. 133.—Plan of the ancient Church of S.]:^ustace at Milan—IXth or Xtli Ccnturv. been regarded as an insigniticant aitenipt, but as an inventionso perfect in itself that it was applied \\itli conspienous successto a great number of re-markable churches in theeleventh and twelfth cen-turies. We find it alieadyemployed in 1013 in of Florence, andif it had so early crossedthe Apennines, it is morethan logical to supposethat well before this epocliit Avas in use in HigliItaly. YiCENZA.—In su])portof this we have at Mcenzaa very precious and totallyneglected church : that ofSS. Felix and Fortunatus. which i-ises outside the town at ashort distance from the railway station, and announces itself by apicturesque fortified belfry.* A historical document teaches usthat in the year 1895 Ijishop Raoul, having found it •omni cultumonastico et divino otticio destitutam ob negligen
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