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[M2.13backL]				Zanotto				219                                        [M2.13back]									13
                                                                      
Simon Dandolo.  Sent under Marco Giustiniani to Zara with             		a certain fitness of proportion as subtle and as indefinable
Andrea Morosini as the two proveditore del campo: afterwards          		as the less or more of colour in the touch of a
		the great battle in 1346                                            		great painter, which, while we can recognise when it is
He was podesta of Treviso from 1447 to 1451 he was one of             		right, it is utterly hopeless to define in quantity - or
		the electors of Falier at one of the giunta to council              		to [?] say in what measure it should be altered if its place
		of 10 who condemned him.                                            		& intention were changed.
		Male and female - L'angelo e Maria Annunziata                       		It has just been observed that there is a limit to slenderness
		He gives first part of inscription.                                 		in the inconvenience of the narrowed interval:
		Anno MCCCIX prima die Julii spells justitia chomun and              		But in saying this, it is assumed that the interval is
		puts two angels instead of 4                                        		one which is to be traversed by men; and a certain relation
                                                                      		of the shaft to the size of the human figure, becomes
Duccio.	He puts angel and annunziata on heads, and three large        		under such circumstances a matter of necessity;  When
		crockets at side, says nothing about their being lost               		shafts are used in the upper stages of buildings - or in
                                                                      		any other place, and on a scale, small or large, which
Isidore.	On brackets at side he puts Mad. Annunziata.                 		ignores the relation to the human figure;  so such
                                                                      		limits exist either to slenderness or solidity.
Jacopo Cavalli altag. Gessit.  Once statues now gone were             		Again, it is evidently in the power of the architect to
		Faith, Hope and Charity, They appear to have been fine              		use his columns either of equal or unequal size verging
		by his drawing.                                                     		{to the side of} over slenderness in one cases and of over
		In 1376 commanded Venetian forces on Mainland against               		solidity, alternately;  also to place them at regular
		Leopold of Austria and does not assault Feltre after                		or irregular intervals, or in groups;  modes of arrangement
		a victory because senate will not grant double pay for              		which admitting, of an infinity still more vast in
		north and sack of town                                              		(the matter of) proportion of single shafts, would
                                                                      		nevertheless in generally be constructively

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