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                                                                      	two large piers with face shaft and two flanking shafts
                                                                      on each side;  rich groups of seven: variously sculptured
                                                                      - only to half or not quite half the height of the front,
                                                                      and one much higher than the other.  The two main face
	 Some of the flanking shafts are covered with leafage of             shafts are both fluted, the one uprightly, the other a
the common vine pattern.                                              spiral, with section                   a flat
                                                                      cavetto in groove, another has a rude twist with section
	The windows to the front have been double                            The capitals of the main door,mpecul[,]iarly elaborate in ther[i]
both the first order and the bracket of                               	figures of     apes or devils, with moustaches and teeth,
second carved into a rude head                                        half crouching with their hands impertinently on their
But most of the windows are deep                                      knees, is of some hard dark stone;  and so I think the
many ordered - alternate -round and square                            capitals of another porch:  but all the rest is in a coarse
                                                                      crumbling sandstone, which has rotted away at the
                                                                      bases almost entirely into great cellular cavitirs, whose
                                                                      edge is crumbling away in the hand, all owing - for the
                                                                      most part to the abuse of the church by the brutal
                                                                      Italians (look for effect of ammoniacal gas on sandstone)
                                                                      The pilaster of the main door are covered with flat
                                                                      scukpture - not the bold monsters of the northern.  Note
                                                                      the Knights shiel[e]d[l]s all the shape fig 1 p 21 Verona book
                                                                      Cremona.	The indiscriminate mingling of the round and pointed arch
                                                                      and the addition of the element foliation and that luxurian[i]
                                                                      distinguish this cathedral from all others that I remember;
                                                                      For though in Ital[,]ian Gothic the round arch as in the
                                                                      Frari is constantly associated with the point, still the
                                                                      Spirit of the  hing

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