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Note  The great det. 5th in the Pal. Pruli beside the principal       		angle shaft, secondly for its distorted tracery rudely
finestrata have had cusps like the rest, now cut                      		given at p 39 1 door book.  The central trefoil should be
away.  I am particularly puzzled in this palace by the                		symmetrical but the relation of the cutting out of the
introduction of the heads in the capitals;  the capped ones           		cusp is true as compared with that of the semi lateral
have indeed an early look - but the others are blundering             		trefoil.  The fact is the semicircle is described with
& clumsy - & like a copy - from what? if not from Ducal palace        		the outer roll of tracery;  Then the inner mouldings make
The whole has been however so patched that it                         		the space to be foliated too small and in order to give
would need as much work as the Ducal palace itself to disentangle it. 		the effect of a semi trefoil, the foils are made even less
Compare house No 94 p 42 Door book.                                   		than semicircles, and the spandril space is thrown nearly
                                                                      		upright:  Yet the figure if complete would not be a 4
                                                                      		foil, it is altogether nondescript and deceives the eye so
                                                                      		cleverly that I did not see it till I drew the tracery
                                                                      		This is the most remarkable instance I have yet obtained
                                                                      		of Italian adjustment.
                                                                      		The tracery bar is given real size with root of cusp, p
                                                                      		78 1 Gothic book, fig 1  the arch with cusp profile fig 2
                                                                      		the surrounding square moulding with the tracery "junction
                                                                      		bery anomalous?) p 78 fig 3.  the capital of the great
                                                                      		angle shaft, (shaft of grey granite), for greater strength
                                                                      		I suppose) fig 4. the pil head fig 5.  The angle shaft
                                                                      		has a plain raised leaf base;  the pils have a dog tooth
                                                                      		on the base, and a curious emergent small shaft half way
                                                                      		up, which has carried something, now broken away;  they
                                                                      		are bold cch and have florid capitals with mens child heads
                                                                      		vilely cut.

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