Turrets, Towers, and Temples
Subtitle: The Great Buildings of the World, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781410203168
Subjects: Architecture; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; General; History - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: A YARD or two farther, we pass the hostelry of the Black Eagle, and, glancing as we pass through the square door of marble, deeply moulded, in the outer wall, we see the shadows of its pergola of vines resting on an ancient well, with a pointed shield carved on its side; and so presently emerge on the bridge and Campo San Moise, whence to the entrance into St. Mark's Place, called the Bocca di Piazza (mouth of the square), the Venetian character is nearly destroyed, first by the frightful facade of San Moise, which we will pause at another time to examine, and then by the modernizing of the shops as they near the piazza, and the mingling with the lower Venetian populace of lounging groups of English and Austrians.