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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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ts. The process began almost from the first,with the simple stone bracket on the tower face, which must havebeen suggested by the still more primitive wooden wedge used tohold the beams fast in their holes. Then, when the topmostgallery at the tower roof was made permanent—in the thirteenthcentury or even earlier—its stone brackets reproduced their modelsexactly, showing either the profile of the corbel—curve retreatingunder curve—or of the strut, slanting inwards sharply from theface of the upper battlements to that of the tower wall. The firstform may be seen in the Palagio della Lana, and that of theGianfigliazzi (now the Pensione Piccioli) in Via Tornabuoni ; thelatter in the Spini Palace just opposite the Gianfigliazzi, andin the Palazzo della Signoria. The sporti, too, when their timecame, followed the same lines, and their stone brackets may there-fore be classified, like those of the house-crowns, under the twodominant types of the corbel and the strut. Examples of the
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