A History Of Architecture In Italy From The Time Of Constantine To The Dawn Of The Renaissance Volume 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from A History of Architecture in Italy, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Time of Constantine to the Dawn of the Renaissance Some half dozen years ago, while engaged in assisting my friend Mr. Longfellow in the preparation of his Cyclopaedia, I found myself frequently impatient and not seldom exasperated over the difficulty of getting at any authentic and exact information concerning the con struction, design, dimensions, and history of many even of the most important and well-known buildings of mediaeval Italy. French writers, German writers, Italian writers, English writers, had passed over the ground, one after another, and had set down with serene confidence their facts and their theories. Unfortunately in many cases their facts and in most cases their theories did not agree, and may be said to have formed as a rule the subject of lively and too often acrid personal controversy, which, however entertaining to the reader, is seldom instructive to the student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.