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                                                                      				Capitals.
                                                                      
                                                                      		Now of Capitals!  There will be;  first the Byzantine of
Byzantine.  A. various.                                               		various character - some half Corinthian - some Ionic
Byzantine B.  Dying out. Commissary of Police a capital               		and associated with them in the Fondaco de Turchi:  the
which I have called L.L. and of which I must look at the              		Plain truncated - in the Church of San Jacopo del’ Orio
example with 3rd order in house No 2, and again - Palazzo             		with the earliest Lombard spiral.
Sagredo most valuable.                                                		In St Marks, I apprehend I shall find some of these
                                                                      		simpler capitals:  and they mark the coming of the
                                                                      		Lombardic Current.
                                                                      		They appear under two forms
                                                                      		1.  A.  The Pure truncated of the Fondaco de Turchi
And in Commissaire of Police house, with a Byzantine                  		which on no 37 I got associated with the pure round arch
form dying out 1. A. from truncated 1 B circular truncated            		and roll, and in No 81 with Cusps.
of later.                                                             		2nd A.  The truncated and ribbed or incised on the
                                                                      		leaf:  This is the capital associated constantly with my
2nd B.  Instead of  rubbing and occupying angle with spiral           		2nd order, vid also No 112, and many other cases when it
a decoration form appears, by laying a simple leaf on the             		goes with the round arch, as No 42.
angle as on Grand Canal No [gap] and in Ca Falier.                    		3rd.  Truncated - ribbed - and with spiral at the top
But this I imagine a later form associated with appearance            		No 112 a beautiful example.  Columns of the church of San
of rose on the Lombard                                                		Jacopo dell’ Orlo: - (now associated I think, either
                                                                      		with round arches, as on No 112 or with pointed Gothic
                                                                      		San Giacomo Jacopo) and door at Verona, on No 4.

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