[M.84L]                                                               [M.84]
[diagram]                                                             No 65	Ducal Palace. Lateral Windows	84
                                                                      
                                                                      		D a semicircle 5 inches round: This roll forms the outside
                                                                      		or dripstone of the arches:  of the two I examined nearest
                                                                      		the bridge of sighs and falls on the central Lombard
                                                                      		capital purely divided scientifically, as opp: The moulding
                                                                      		is noble for size, but hard in its useless central cavetto
                                                                      		K and it is excessively ungraceful when it meets in the apex
                                                                      		of the arch - especially the two great rolls - A  it is easy
                                                                      		to conjecture the resemblance which these suggest as they
                                                                      		approach each other:  I imagine the whole is late work:
                                                                      		of the date, whatever that may be, of the interior arcade
                                                                      		of the second story on the three sides most aged of
                                                                      		the palace court:  I think I see the same style in the
                                                                      		leaf work of the capital drawn at p on No 83 (By
                                                                      	A	the bye, observe how in this leaf - and many more -
                                                                      Ribs. Their	exquisite effect is produced by a rib emergent from
                                                                      treatment	a hollow; and compare this with the human spine)
                                                                      Upper arcade	and the arch section of that pointed arch arcade
                                                                      Inner Cortile	is the same - only bolder than even this and better
                                                                      		applied; and the rolls, instead of coinciding fall
                                                                      		separately on abacus - Fig 1 p No 65 is a rude
                                                                      		approximation to the arch section - a b of course soffit
                                                                      		& moulding same on both sides:  Some of the piers
                                                                      		are solid, of the singular plan fig 2 in which note

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