. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )ha-sized by pilaster strips, which are,in most cases, repeated once ortwice on each face of the tower,and which are connected at everystage by arched corbel-tables. Intlie Roman towers neither pilasterstrips nor corbel-tables are to befound, but the horizontal divisionsare prominently marked by moulded string courses or cornices. In the Lombard regions the cam])anile, with a good deal of indi-vidual variation in matters of detail, shows, as I have said, duringfive hundred years a steady adhesion
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. )ha-sized by pilaster strips, which are,in most cases, repeated once ortwice on each face of the tower,and which are connected at everystage by arched corbel-tables. Intlie Roman towers neither pilasterstrips nor corbel-tables are to befound, but the horizontal divisionsare prominently marked by moulded string courses or cornices. In the Lombard regions the cam])anile, with a good deal of indi-vidual variation in matters of detail, shows, as I have said, duringfive hundred years a steady adhesion to the original type. The twotowers of the cathedral of No vara, probably nearly as old as anynow existing, going back ])orha])s as far as 730, rising a])parcntly outof the roof of the narthex, but really from the end of the outer aisles,have an unbroken wall to the corbel-table of the cornice, j)iercedwith a sinn)le coupled window on each face of the belfry, divided bya shaft, and with single small ()j)enings irregularly disposed Yifr. 111. Tower of S. JSatiro. TilK L()MHy\KI) KOMANKSQUE 173 In the tower of Crciiiona catlKMlral, 4, the .stages aredivided by eorl)el-tai)les, and the angles are (Mn|)hasize<l hy j)ilasterstrips, wliieh in the older ])()rtion are repeated twice on ea(di face,dividing tht; wall into three vertical piinels. Where the tower isnarrow the corhel-table is sometimes replaced by two or thrvAt blindarches on each face, eonn(;cting the pilasterstrips, as at Mnrano (a. d. 9G0). As early as the end of the ninth centurythe type was complete. The oldest andperhaps the most perfect example of thetypical campanile is San Satiro at Milan(Fig. Ill), dating from 879, which seemsto have been bnilt withont interruption andto have suffered no essential modificationin later ages. It is in four stages separated , by arched corbel-tables joining the pilaster //^i.\strips which mark the angles. The lowest \\ ivX
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