. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. hes are supported on stout columns, builtup in courses, withsimple block whole construc-tion and design areof the simplest char-acter, and were evi-dently unchanged byCoUeoni; but thewalls of the corridor,and even of the court-yard above the arches,were profusely deco-rated by him withfrescoes, illustratingthe exploits and tri-umphs of the greatsoldier, while thesmaller surfaces, asthe soffits of thearches, were coveredwith floral designs.^(Figs. 402 and 403.)At Gioja dellaColle is an
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. hes are supported on stout columns, builtup in courses, withsimple block whole construc-tion and design areof the simplest char-acter, and were evi-dently unchanged byCoUeoni; but thewalls of the corridor,and even of the court-yard above the arches,were profusely deco-rated by him withfrescoes, illustratingthe exploits and tri-umphs of the greatsoldier, while thesmaller surfaces, asthe soffits of thearches, were coveredwith floral designs.^(Figs. 402 and 403.)At Gioja dellaColle is an ancientcastle with very mas-sive square angletowers, of rude stonemasonry, like that of Bari above mentioned ; the tops of the towershave disappeared. Near Umbertide, a small town some eighteenmiles to the north of Perugia, is the castle of Civitella Ranieri, asquare mass of buildings with round angle towers capped with heavymachicolations, standing within an enclosure of high walls with for-tified gateway and square towers at the angles. 1 Fumagalli, U Castello di Malpaga, e le sue Fig. 408. Malpaga. Court of Castle. 248 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY At Castrogiovanni, in Sicily, and at Conversano, in Apulia, are theruins of extensive castles, the latter with a varied outline and plan,with a great round bastion projecting from it. The castle of RobertCastei Guiscard, called Castel del Monte or Castromonte, which del Monte, stands in ruins on a desolate rocky hill near Andria inApulia, and which is one of the most interesting remains of thedomestic architecture of the Middle Ages, had a remarkable Lombard Ratchis took it from the Byzantines in the ninth cen-tury, but the Saracens got it in 1009; in 1070 it was destroyed bythe victorious Guiscard, who rebuilt it for himself. Frederick it again in ruins, and rebuilt it once more in 1228 for the lasttime. The castle is an immense octagon some one hundred and thirty-five feet in diame-ter, with walls nearly
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