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The reference seems to be to Gally Knight (1844) I p.xxix. He comments there that it was in the ‘same state as it was when it was rebuilt in the beginning of the eleventh century by Orso Orseolo, Bishop of Torcello and son of the celebrated Doge Pietro Orseolo. This edifice neither resembles its Lombard contemporaries, nor its Byzantine neighbour; but might be thought more ancient than it really is, as it is built on the Latin plan and in the more Roman style of the old Basilicas’.
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