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                                                                      			       CALLE DEI GIARDUNI
                                                                      		Cannot be sure it is of same date.  The side windows
                                                                      have plinths as the last house D.c. and same bracket
                                                                      An angel, with two fingers u, in attitude of blessing,
                                                                      carrying a cost of arms with chess chequers on it, under a
                                                                      		kind of crest like that in the beautiful Byzantine
                                                                                		     drawn
                                                                      		house down three year ago  all surrounded by a square dentil
                                                                      		is built into wall at side.
                                                                      			Beyond this house, comes a curious Saracenic front,
                                                                      		low, yet to be studied.
                                                                      	  		Then turning down the Calle dei Giardini, a small
                                                                      house on the right has three windows of curve and section
                                                                      D Da and pilaster Db but it has also a pure Lombard capi-
                                                                      tal with ling curled leaves at the angles, and a short
                                                                      leaf in the centre, instead of the bud:  fig 2 opposite,
                                                                      and   1 section through side and a barbarous, very Lom-
                                                                      bard like, only too stupid, bas relief of a leopard on wall
                                                                      			Going forward, close to the gardens on the right is a
                                                                      door worth daguerreotyping;  it has heads at the side of
                                                                      a richly crocketed pediment, like the tomb;
                                                                      Niches	    but the heads carry n[I]ic[v]hes, with octagonal canopies of the simple design, 3 opposite the recess behind the statue a mere cavette, a 2 b 2 is section on line a b

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[Version 0.05: May 2008]