Sentence:  Façade of the Benedictines' convent and church wonderfully crowded with ornaments, as likewise the altars generally adorned with twisted pillars flourished all over, and loaden with little puttini, birds, and the like in clusters on the chapiters and between the wreaths along the <WSD>fusts</WSD> of the columns. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The shaft (main body) of a column.