. Essays and Belles Lettres. far away in the great Lombardic plain, fromdistances of half-a-days journey, dark against the amber skyof the horizon. These are of course now built no more, thechanged methods of modern warfare having cast them intoentire disuse; but the belfry or campanile has had a verydifferent influence on European architecture. Its form in 1 I did not, at the time of: the delivery of these lectures, know howmany Gothic towers the worthy Glaswegians have lately built : that ofSt. Peters, in particular, being a most meritorious effort. 2 There is a good abstract of the forms of
. Essays and Belles Lettres. far away in the great Lombardic plain, fromdistances of half-a-days journey, dark against the amber skyof the horizon. These are of course now built no more, thechanged methods of modern warfare having cast them intoentire disuse; but the belfry or campanile has had a verydifferent influence on European architecture. Its form in 1 I did not, at the time of: the delivery of these lectures, know howmany Gothic towers the worthy Glaswegians have lately built : that ofSt. Peters, in particular, being a most meritorious effort. 2 There is a good abstract of the forms of the Italian campanile, byMr. Papworth, in the Journal of the Archaeological Institute, March1850. Architecture and Painting 77 the plains of Italy and South France being that just shownyou, the moment we enter the valleys of the Alps, wherethere is snow to be sustained, we find its form of roof alteredby the substitution of a steep gable for a flat Thereare probably few in the room who have not been in some fi - -11-.
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