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[M.59L]                                                               [M.59]	Calle dei Giardini	59
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                                                                      		cannot be sure it is of same date.  The side windows have
                                                                      		plinths as the last house D.c. and same bracket.
                                                                      		An angel, with two fingers up, in attitude of blessing,
                                                                      		carrying a coat of arms with chess chequers on it, under a
                                                                      		kind of crest like that in the beautiful Byzantine
                                                                      		house  drawn three years ago,  all surrounded by a square
                                                                      		dentil is built into wall at side
                                                                      		Beyond this house, comes a curious Saracenic front, low,
                                                                      		yet to be studied.
                                                                      		Then turning down the Calle dei Giardini, a small
                                                                      		house on the right has three windows of curve and
                                                                      		section D Da and pilaster Db but it has also
                                                                      		a pure Lombard capital with long curled leaves at
                                                                      		the angles, and a short leaf in the centre, instead of
                                                                      		the bud:  fig 2 opposite, and 1 section through side
                                                                      		and a barbarous, very Lombard like, only too stupid,
                                                                      		bas relief of a leopard on wall.
                                                                      		Going forward, close to the gardens on the right is a door
                                                                      		worth daguerreotyping;  it has heads at the side of a richly
                                                                      		crocketed pediment, like the tomb:
                                                                      Niches		but the heads carry niches, with octagonal canopies
                                                                      		of the simple design, 3 opposite the recess behind
                                                                      		the statue a mere cavetto, a2 b2 is section on line a b

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