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	The interior staircase of this palace entered by principal           	    No 135.  CA PRIULI
door is remarkable for its rich leaf plinths and its                  Palazzo Priuli  A San Severo.
towering capital of a noble banded shaft, which carries               	I think I may now establish something like a group with
two round arches or one and  a half - now up[f] - but                 these penetrated cusps, seen in daguerre  of principal
which have as usual formerly carried the side of the cor-             finestrata:  (The house No 88 I must further examine as
tile:  the staircase being entered beneath them.  Their               its having finials separate it from the Palazzo Priuli)
rare section with excavated but in Italy I think never open           The main story Pruili is daged.  Fig 1 No 135
cut dogtooth, fig 3 No 135.  The capital of their beaming             is the capital and cusp in that finestrata cusp leaving
shaft is the most delicate and valuable example of transi-            slight fillet all round.
tion to florid I have met with though it has curled                   The capital leaves are vilely cut;  and some have curled
lobes and head in centre:  Its towering abaci, the upper              lobes with fruit, but they are certainly of the early
ones with a rose leaf plinth, quite unexampled:  the                  transitional from lancet to florid form.
pilaster on other side of arch haa the same abacus                    Bases common A undecorated but ridged leaf.
and section, but only to bottom of roll a.  Finally, the              	Flower plinth has roses with fruit:  horizontal on the
staircase itself as usual is sloping plinth on shafts                 pillars of balustrade without arches:  another flower
without capitals, has this plinth decorated as fig 4                  plinth encloses at the top the marble of the lower fine-
with a most light and delicate rose and leaf, about an inch           strata, this is rare.
and a half broad;  at the landing at the top this leaf                The great capital of the single shaft of the angle window
cornice is of course continued, but the plinth is cut                 opposite the rich traceried one has heads, with caps,
into trefoils, the shafts take capitals, and between the              nicely set - but vilely cut, it looks very well from below
trefoils ogeed however, are laid leaves, like though not              The tracery of this angle is gone, plastered up, Its c
so delicate as; those of the Porta di Fiero.                          section is like a recessed cavetto fig 2 No 135 star
Reeds in bundles at the angles as usual.  The main door or             any I have seen, but I cannot answer for it
this palace on No 136 vide p 67 M. 2.                                 	Figs 3, 4, and 5, vid opp.

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