Bk. VIII. Ch. V. NON-GOTHIC STYLES. ,^69 Others, the one to be designated " Romanesque Gothic," to inckide such churches as the two at Toseanella ; and the other " Byzantine Gothic," to hichide those cliurches in the South in the decoration of which rose- windows and Gothic details form a leading characteristic. For the present, however, it will probably suffice to describe the various non- Gothic styles of the southern half of Italy in local sections without attempting any very minute classification of their variations. As the Italians had no great national stvle of their own, and both in the North and South were principally working under foreign influences, it is in vain to look for any thread that will conduct the student straight through the labyrinth of their styles. Italian unity is the aspiration of the present century : during the Middle Ages it did not exist either in politics or art.
