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                                                                      Cortile of Ducal Palace:  Old plan.
                                                                      	The first difficulty is about the mouldings of gateway
                                                                      f[g]acing giant’s stair.  Place the plan with letter A. up-
                                                                      right. then the moulding c p of the great coloured pier is
                                                                      in question, at first I thought it was only an inaccurate
                                                                      drawing of the present condition;  but I have now no
                                                                      doubt it has been altered:  Place the plan with letter A2
                                                                      upright.  Then the present state of themoulding is given
                                                                      from C. fig 1 joining a with a2 to p in fig 2.  The whole
                                                                      group of mouldings from c to a carries the round angle
                                                                      of the gate way:  it is banded with red and white marble; a[i]
                                                                      purely Gothic in feeling, though very late:  and of the
                                                                      finer Bon school (the semicircle b is a spiral of       )
                                                                      and all this I believe to be the part represented
                                                                      in the old plan:  The larger shaft p however like in ar-
                                                                      rangements to the old plan, is a pure renaissance facing
                                                                      carried along the whole front of the walls towards Giants
                                                                      staur:  carrying the curious pinnacles and statues and
                                                                      abortions of the gateway;  Thus the portions M. M. of the
                                                                      old plan (A upright) are now as at M. opposite:  the great
                                                                      cavetto one I doubttnot ancient, and carelessly represent-
                                                                      ed as too deep in the old plan:  but the larger shafts,
                                                                      correspondent and equal, to the longer shaft at p fig 2
                                                                      are evidently

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