[M.195L]                                                              [M.195]
                                                                      No 135.	Ca Priuli	195
The interior staircase of this palace entered by principal door       
is remarkable for its rich leaf plinths and its towering capital      Palazzo Priuli  A San Severo.
of a noble banded shaft, which carries two round arches - or          		I think I may now establish something like a group with
one and  a half, now up.  but which have as usual formerly            		these penetrated cusps, seen in daguerre  of principal
carried the side of the cortile:  the staircase being entered beneath 		finestrata:  (The house No 88 I must farther examine as
them.  Their rare section with excavated but in Italy I think never   		its having finials separate it from the Palazzo Priuli)
open cut dogtooth, fig 3 No 135.  The capital of their                		The main story Pruili is daged.  Fig 1 No 135
bearing shaft is the most delicate and valuable example of            		is the capital and cusp in that finestrata cusp leaving
transition to florid I have met with though it has curled lobes       		slight fillet all round.
and head in centre:  Its towering abaci: the upper ones with          		The capital leaves are vilely cut;  and some have curled
a rose leaf plinth, quite unexampled:  the pilaster on other side     		lobes with fruit, but they are certainly of the early
of arch haa the same abacus & section, but only to bottom of roll     		transitional from lancet to florid form.
a.  Finally, the staircase itself as usual a sloping                  		Bases common A undecorated but ridged leaf.
plinth on shafts without capitals, has this plinth decorated          Lef plinths	Flower plinth has roses with fruit:  horizontal on the
as fig 4. with a most light and delicate rose & leaf, about an inch andVid opp.		the pillars of balustrade without arches:  another flower
a half broad;  at the landing at the top this leaf cornice is of      		plinth encloses {at the top} the marble of the lower finestrata. This is
course continued, but the plinth is cut into trefoils, the shafts take		rare.
capitals, and between the trefoils ogeed: {however} are laid leaves, like though		The great capital of the single shaft of the angle window
not so delicate as; those of the Porta di Ferro.                      		opposite the rich traceried one has heads, with caps, nicely
Reeds in bundles at the angles as usual.  The main door of            		set, but vilely cut.  It looks very well from below
this palace on No 136 vide p 67 M. 2.                                 		The tracery of this angle is gone, plastered up, Its c section
                                                                      		is like a recessed cavetto fig 2 No 135 star  any I
                                                                      		 have seen, but I cannot answer for it
                                                                      		Figs 3, 4, & 5, vid opp.

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