[M2.12backL] [M2.12back] 12 the one side also, there is a limit to the multiplication of the slender shaft, in the inconvenience of the narrowest interval: on the other, a limit to the expansion of the massy shaft in the inconvenient space taken from the so also on the one side there is a limit to slenderness width of the building. ^ Between these extremes the in the increasedtroublecost of the cutting and adjustment architects choice will be regulated by his intention of small parts: on the other to massiveness in the of graceful or grand expression; remembering always increased difficulty of raising enormous masses. that it is best to lean towards the side of grandeur because constructively strength and material are always lost by subdivision of substance in the shafts; and that arrangement {of proportion} will generally be the best which is a natural {& rational} mean between the two extremes, after due consideration of the materials both of in Chioggia war. Pisani after his own liberation sent the shafts and superstructure. For {of course} more slender him to Malamocco He had afterwards in that war the shafts may be safely used when they can be cut out of a post of the abbey at S Nicolo di Lidohardtough stone than of asoftbrittle one; and when they can be Negliabbalberi del Cappellari vien detto che ricupero cut out of a single block, than when they must be made of Chioggia riprese Feltre Belluno Pola e l’Istria celebrated many pieces; All these circumstances must be known before in Pietro Guistianiani history as well as the Expressional intention, before we can say Era cavalier de S. Jacopo. He married Constance daughter whether such and such a shaft is truly proportioned or not of William della Scala and had 4 sons Riposa il capo and thereareis literally an infinite license of various sobra uno sabreciato leone the dog at his feet animals proportion correspondent to the infinite changes of such significative of bravery and fidelity. circumstances but there is in every case, supposing them all known
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