Storia dell'arte. . e nuovamente Italianarchitect ritrova se stesso, come il romano architectfound se stesso quando il suo problema è stato quello di aprire strade, tobuild circhi, terme, e acquedotti. Qui egli è athome, ed egli afferma il fatto. Egli subito becomesstrong, sobrio, preciso e definitivo. Uno riceve theimpression che il grande marciapiede sul quale peoplewalk e che è arrossata dal loro sangue nei giorni ofrebellion, è stato istituito dritto verso il cielo,perpendicolare con la strada. Il feroce palazzi fol-bassa uno un altro, quasi solidi come blocchi, senza ornamento anyother rispetto ai pugni di ottone che stick

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History of art . e Italianarchitect again finds himself, as the Roman architectfound himself when his problem was to open roads, tobuild circuses, thermae, and aqueducts. Here he is athome, and he affirms the fact. Immediately he becomesstrong, sober, precise, and definitive. One receives theimpression that the great pavement on which peoplewalk and which is reddened by their blood on days ofrebellion, has been set up straight toward the sky, perpendicular with the street. The fierce palaces fol-low one another, almost solid like blocks, without anyother ornament than the brass fists that stick out ofthe walls as hitching posts for the horses. As the palacesstart up from the soil their line is a little oblique, it THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 395 bends backward, like the spine of a bowman. Higherup it becomes vertical. At the top it leans forward, like the square shoulders whose mailed arms are aboutto send down lead and iron. Thus the whole façadeis concave, impossible to scale. And two hermetical. Siena (xiv Century). Salimbeni Palace. walls on each side of the street defy and menace eachother, with the sinister melody of stone that has beenset in place with a certainty of its practical function, even as a geometrical theorem is inscribed in the logicalfunctioning of the brain. These crenelated cubesdominated by a square tower, these perfectly barewalls pierced by pairs of narrow windows betweenwhich stands a colonnette as stiff as an iron bar, andthese profiles as hard as axes rise from the paved lanesof Siena, Perugia, Volterra, Florence, and Mantuaand never seem more than half open. When the stand- 396 MEDIAEVAL ART ard bearers unfurl the banner of the unions in thepublic square, the gates of bronze are closed against theinsurrection of the people. Civil war continues. Letthere be two different plumes on mens hoods, let aglance be given or a gesture made and the daggerleaps from its sheath. The tocsin sounds, men areambushed at the cross streets, pursued unde

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