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Title: The builders of Florence
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, J. Wood (James Wood)
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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iottos famous tower, and the origin of that type of construction ishardly doubtful. Near the Church to which it belongs, yet builton a separate foundation of its own ; divided into a vertical seriesof tower rooms, like the ancient dwelling-houses of Florence, withwindows that grow in size as they rise from the soil, it betrays itsorigin at a glance. Strip this campanile of its marbles and carvings,and it becomes just such a tower as Florence once built by the scoreand the hundred. Reduce the neighbouring Church to propor-tions befitting a primitive Florentine parish, and the old relationreappears, in which a tower near by was assigned to the Church asa Clergy house and Belfry in one. Thus the architectural unitenters on a new, a sacred use, and this in virtue of its position inthe group, the dado, when that was hallowed by holding a Churchwithin its bounds. Thus then we have discovered in the campanile, the tower as itstrue model, the tower-group as determining its sacred use in rela-
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