Excerpt from Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance Even the exteriors of the palaces revealed the wealth and artistic taste of their owners both with regard to size and The rough hewn rustic stones were no longer set one on the other in order to give the effect of a fortress, but separated by grooves, or used for the basement story. More frequently rough-cast materials of an inferior sort were employed. Only in the north of Italy and the eastern part of central Italy a peculiar sort of red brick archi tecture gradually developed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.