"Modernisation" Quotes from Famous Books
... low enormous vault, like a cellar or feudal banqueting hall, roofed with a succession of solid Gothic arches. This strange old church, and the House of Canons, buttressed on the hill beside it, have suffered less from modernisation than most buildings in Gubbio. The latter, in particular, helps one to understand what this city of grave palazzi must have been, and how the mere opening of old doors and windows would restore it to its primitive appearance. The House of the Canons has, ...![](http://www.freetranslator.org/rquot.gif) — Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |