This is the type generally adopted in the campanili of Venice, where there are no string-courses.
The campanili hitherto described are all attached to churches, but there are others belonging to civic buildings some of which are of great importance.
The early campanili of the north of Italy are of quite another type, the north campanile of S.
In central Italy the two early campanili at Lucca return to the Lombard type of the north, with pilaster strips and arcaded corbel strings, and the same is found in S.
The campanili are in plain masonry, the storeys being suggested only by blind arches or windows, there being neither pilaster strips nor string-courses.
From the line, too, the campanili of Grado and Aquileia are visible, far away over the plain, dark against lagoon or sky in the evening, or flashing white in the morning sun.
The churches generally have a semicircular apse and flat wooden ceilings; those without campanili have bell-turrets on the west wall, many of them no longer in use.
The originals of all Italian campanili seem to be the early steeples of the Roman churches, divided into a series of stages of equal height, pierced with windows not varying much in design throughout.
Italian campanili have quite a character of their own, so distinct from and utterly unlike the steeples of Northern Europe, that this, the first Gothic example I had seen, interested me exceedingly.
It has one of the usual brick conical spires, with small angle-pinnacles--a finish to these campanili which certainly does not improve upon acquaintance.
The only approach to old buildings that we saw were one or two brick campanili of early date, and the remains of a castle, near Varese, finished at the top with the favourite forked battlement.
Gothic detail, is full of the spirit which made the earlier campanili so effective.
For though sweet are the bells that ring out from the tallcampanili of Rome, Ah!
All the sunset had paled, and the campanili of Venice Rose like the masts of a mighty fleet moored there in the water.
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