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                                                                      		 	       RIVA DE’ SCHIABONI
                                                                      		School D. General type opposite.    The section
                                                                      D. a is constant in all windows of this form: with the
                                                                       capital more usually on pilaster profile D.b. and
                                                                      A.		balconia supported by ledges of the moulding D.c. supported
                                                                      by brackets of the shaded profile.  The first house along
                                                                      quay from Daniel’s is of this design - nothing remarkable
                                                                      The second house, some distance on, is very beautiful: it
                                                                      has two stories above ground floor:  with four windows
                                                                      in a row in the centre of each: and single windows
                                                                      irregularly at the side - all of this curve D. and section
                                                                      D a:  The upper story has Lombard capitals exactly
                                                                      like those of St Stefano - fillet - leaves - etc (to its
                                                                      three central pillars) and bud in centre:  only they have
                                                                      at their base the section D e; instead of the simple circu-
                                                                      larsfillet, about 5 diamonds seen on shaft side;  the pil-
                                                                      lars being remarkable for their slenderness their propor-
                                                                      tion nearly as f opposite.  At this side, they have the
                                                                      pilaster D b as last house.
                                                                       The 4 windows of story below are all within a pannel
                                                                      (Square) of dentils and have had a florid balustrade now
                                                                      bricked up only cornice left - in the wall outside are
                                                                      two Byzantine circles with beasts.  The capitals
                                                                      and pilasters both florid:  though not rich:  the shafts
                                                                      with base g opposite, and simple upturned leaf, h  the
                                                                      whole placed on a long plinth of profile i, but so broken
                                                                      away from dentil that I

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