Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . , St. Valentine, , St. George, St. Sigismund,and St. Louis. Beneath the gable ofthe third storey are allegorical figuresof virtues : Faith, with the star uponher breast; Prudence, Charity, andthree others. The figure is recumbentupon a sumptuous sarcophagus. Aninscription, in Gothic letters, preservesthe name
Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . , St. Valentine, , St. George, St. Sigismund,and St. Louis. Beneath the gable ofthe third storey are allegorical figuresof virtues : Faith, with the star uponher breast; Prudence, Charity, andthree others. The figure is recumbentupon a sumptuous sarcophagus. Aninscription, in Gothic letters, preservesthe name of Bonino di Campiglione,who was both the sculptor and thearchitect of this sumptuous pile. PICTURE GALLERY AND MUSEUMS. The Pinacoteca forms part of theMuseo Civico (open daily, 1 fr.) at the Route 2b.—Picture Gallery. 273 Palazzo Pompei alia Vittnria, being the Adige, and immediately below thedelle Navi, the lowest of thebridges on the river. The * palace, ahandsome edifice, the front countingof a Tuscan or rustic basement, sur-mounted by an elegant Doric portico,was an early work of Saninichele. andwas bequeathed by its last Pompei, to his native town afew years since for its present of part only. TIXACOTECA, OR PICTURE GALLERY, a. Entrance to Gallery from stairs. b. c. Facade overlooking the Great court of palace. i to xv. Different Halls of Pictures. The Ground-floor contains a series of casts from Canovas principal works, bequeathed by the Marquis Pinde- monte ; ? very interesting collection plants, and of fishes, from Boloa, formed by the late Pro- aeveial Etruscan and Roman antiquities, forming the ant Yerita. and mostly lents from the Roman theatre • be Ponte di Pietra. In the vestibule is the great Bell, ffm Italy.—1877 cast in 1370. formerly in the tower ofthe Piazza, delle Erbe. The * Picture Galhru was removedin 1S5S from the Palazzo del Consiglio,and is now arranged in a handsomesuite of apartments forming the
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