Bk. VIII. C^H. IV. TOWERS. 353 octagon on their square towers, it looked like an acci- dent for which noth- ing was prepared, and the spire was sep- arated from it only by bold horizontal cornices instead of by vertical lines, as true taste dictated. In fact, the Ital- ians seem to have benefited less by the experience or in- struction of their Northern neighbors in t o w e r - b u i 1 d i n g than in any other feature of the style, and to have retained their old forms in these after they had abandoned them in other parts of their churches. The towers of Asti (1266) and Siena (rebuilt in 1389) are illustrated in Woodcuts I^os. 756 and 761. They certainly display but little art. A more pleasing specimen is the tower (Woodcut No. 781) attached to the Duomo at Prato about 1312), which may be considered as a specimen of tln' very best class of Italian tower-design of the age, although. in fact its onl merit consists in the 783. Campanile, S. Andrea, Mantua. (From Sireet.) VOL. II.
