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LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE.
Book II.
B00K II.
LOMBARD AND RIIENLSH ARCHITECTURE.
CHAPTER I.
LOMBARD ARCLIITECTUEE.
CONTENTS.
Lombardy — Historical notice ■—• Clim’cli of San Antonio, Piacenza — Cbtirclies
at Novara, Pavia, Milan, Yerona — Campaniles,
Charlemagne .
Louis le Ddbonnairc
Lothaire I.
Louis II.
Louis III .
Conrad 1. Ilohenstaufen
Henry the Fowler
Otho the Great .
Otlio II.
Otho II r.
Henry II.
CHRONOLOGY.
DATES.
A.D. 168
814
840
S55
899
911
918
936
973
983
. 1002
Conrad the Salique .
Henry III. . . .
Henry IV. . . .
Henry V . .
Lothaire II. .
Conrad III. .
Frederiok Barbarossa
Henry VI.
Frederick. II. .
Conradin ....
ltudolph of Hapshurg
DATES.
. A.D. 1024
. . 1039
. . 1056
. . 1106
. . 1125
. . 1138
. . 1152
. . 1190
. . 1212
. . 1250
. . 1273
Even before the time when Alaric poured liis destructive liordes into
the fertile plains of Italy, large bodies of Gernian barbarians seem to
irave settled tbemselves in the valley of the Po. After the campaigns
of Alaric and Alboin, wbole tribes, under the names of Gotbs, Ostro-
goths, or Lombards, attracted by tbe amenity of tlie climate and tlie
richness of tbe soil, and encouraged by the weakness and effeminacy
of the inhabitants, poured in one continuous stream across the Alps,
not only as conquerors but as colonists. Tliey brought witli them their
wives and families, and prepared 'to desert for ever the forests where
they and their forefathers had long dwelt, to settle on what was then as
now the most fertile and rnost beautiful of all the plains of Europe.
Before the age of Cliarlemagne the transformation was complete:
the Alps werc no longer the boundary between Germany and Italy.
The valley of the Po was inhabited by the samc races who occupied
that of the Rh iuc. The civilisation of Rome was superseded, and the
population which had long enjoyed siothful security under her impe-
rial sway were either extinct, or so completely swamped by tiie tide
of bardier and more energetic races from tho Korth, tliat we almost
LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE.
Book II.
B00K II.
LOMBARD AND RIIENLSH ARCHITECTURE.
CHAPTER I.
LOMBARD ARCLIITECTUEE.
CONTENTS.
Lombardy — Historical notice ■—• Clim’cli of San Antonio, Piacenza — Cbtirclies
at Novara, Pavia, Milan, Yerona — Campaniles,
Charlemagne .
Louis le Ddbonnairc
Lothaire I.
Louis II.
Louis III .
Conrad 1. Ilohenstaufen
Henry the Fowler
Otho the Great .
Otlio II.
Otho II r.
Henry II.
CHRONOLOGY.
DATES.
A.D. 168
814
840
S55
899
911
918
936
973
983
. 1002
Conrad the Salique .
Henry III. . . .
Henry IV. . . .
Henry V . .
Lothaire II. .
Conrad III. .
Frederiok Barbarossa
Henry VI.
Frederick. II. .
Conradin ....
ltudolph of Hapshurg
DATES.
. A.D. 1024
. . 1039
. . 1056
. . 1106
. . 1125
. . 1138
. . 1152
. . 1190
. . 1212
. . 1250
. . 1273
Even before the time when Alaric poured liis destructive liordes into
the fertile plains of Italy, large bodies of Gernian barbarians seem to
irave settled tbemselves in the valley of the Po. After the campaigns
of Alaric and Alboin, wbole tribes, under the names of Gotbs, Ostro-
goths, or Lombards, attracted by tbe amenity of tlie climate and tlie
richness of tbe soil, and encouraged by the weakness and effeminacy
of the inhabitants, poured in one continuous stream across the Alps,
not only as conquerors but as colonists. Tliey brought witli them their
wives and families, and prepared 'to desert for ever the forests where
they and their forefathers had long dwelt, to settle on what was then as
now the most fertile and rnost beautiful of all the plains of Europe.
Before the age of Cliarlemagne the transformation was complete:
the Alps werc no longer the boundary between Germany and Italy.
The valley of the Po was inhabited by the samc races who occupied
that of the Rh iuc. The civilisation of Rome was superseded, and the
population which had long enjoyed siothful security under her impe-
rial sway were either extinct, or so completely swamped by tiie tide
of bardier and more energetic races from tho Korth, tliat we almost