Gruner, Ludwig [Editor]; Lose, Friedrich [Editor]; Ottolini, Vittore [Editor]: The terra-cotta architecture of North Italy: (XIIth - XVth centuries) ; pourtrayed as examples for imitation in other countries (London, 1867)

22 The Church and Campanile [Plates 5 & 6.

Both the church and the tower of San Gottardo represent to us fairly how
architecture flourished in those days, especially in Upper Italy.

Hope, in his ' Historical Essay on Architecture,' describes this tower as

Details of Toiver oj San Gottardo.

' entirely woven over with small columns, some supported by its body, others
projecting on brackets, all crowned by round-headed arches.' But whoever
studies this building attentively finds much more than this; besides various