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Bk. VIII. Ch. IV.
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bk. VIII. ch. rv. CIVIC BUILDINGS. 359 building is wholly of brick, like most other civic buildings in the North of Italy. Sometimes, as at Piacenza, they are of stone below and brick in the upper stories. Sometimes, though rarely, they are entirely faced with party-colored marbles like the Broletto at Como (Woodcut No. 787), which, though not extensive, is a very beautiful specimen of the best form of civic architecture of the best' age in the North of Italy, and standing as it does between the cathedral on
