. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . oad, and the weather, at first cloudy only and sultry,gradually became w^orse, and, before we had gone far, settledinto a steady pouring rain; so we read, wrote, and occupiedthe many hours in the rumbling diligence as best we might. At Montenara, which we passed on our road, the churchhas a brick campanile, with pilasters at the angles, and in-the belfry two-light windows, with marble central shaftsand round arches. It has one of the usual brick conicalspires, with small angle-pinnacles—a finish to these cam-panili w
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . oad, and the weather, at first cloudy only and sultry,gradually became w^orse, and, before we had gone far, settledinto a steady pouring rain; so we read, wrote, and occupiedthe many hours in the rumbling diligence as best we might. At Montenara, which we passed on our road, the churchhas a brick campanile, with pilasters at the angles, and in-the belfry two-light windows, with marble central shaftsand round arches. It has one of the usual brick conicalspires, with small angle-pinnacles—a finish to these cam-panili which certainly does not improve upon acquaint-ance. Tliey are constructed of bricks with semicircularends laid side by side, the joints being broken in eachcourse, and so making a very jagged kind of cone. The only noticeable point about the church at Montenarais that it has been lately rebuilt in the very worst taste, andat an angle of forty-five degrees with the old steeple! At Oaiiipitello there are several remains of interest. 262 OAMPITELLO. CASALMAGGIORE. [Chap. JilUCK VVIJiDOW—CAMIlTELLO. There is a small domestic building, with four pointedwindows of two lights at the side; the windows have central shafts of stone, but areotherwise entirely of roughbrickwork. The church has akind of double belfry-stage,arcaded similarly in each stagewith round arches. There arealso here the remains of acastle by the river, with a finetower of the same type as theangle-towers of the Castello diCorte at Mantua, and coveredwith a very flat-pitched Casalmaggiore, a town of some importance on thePo, we stopped for dinner; but it was too wet to attempt tolook at the river, and the only note I made was of a largenew church now in course of erection, Kenaissance in style,and with a large dome, and a choir and transepts, all terminated with circular redeeming feature aboutit was that it was entirelyconstructed in brick with con-siderable care, though pro-bably ere long
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