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Lindsay (1847) II pp.31-2 wrote in relation to gothic architecture south of the alps and its first appearance in Assisi:
I may add that the style of the Upper church [of S. Francis] has extended to the city which has grown up around the monastery; pointed arches are to be seen everywhere, and the place has more of the look of the middle ages than (perhap) any other in Italy.
But setting aside the church at Assisi, and a few similar structures (of which I may specify the Duomo at Milan, the Ducal Palace at Venice and S. Giovanni a Carbonara at Naples, all built by German architects in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,) few buildings of any importance in Italy present the pure unmingled Gothic of the North*.
Lindsay adds a footnote:
*Not indeed that these are pure Northern Gothic, except in comparison with those of Italian erection. For Dr. Whewell’s criticisms on Milan Cathedral see his ‘Architectural Notes,’ p.34. - still it is a glorious pile. The palace of the Doges exhibits a most curious tinge of the Arabesque or Saracenic. The Gothic influence was strongest at Naples, even during the middle ages, through the Normans and the dynasty of Anjou, closely connected with the North.
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