The city and its environs contained a hundred and seventy thousand children inhabitants.

In the various schools about ten thousand children were taught to read; twelve hundred studied arithmetic; six hundred received a learned education." Giotto died in 1386, and after his death, as I have said, Andrea Pisano came in for a while; to be followed by Talenti, who is said to have made considerable alterations in Giotto's design and to be responsible for the happy idea of increasing the height of the windows with the height of the tower and thus adding to the illusion of springing lightness.

The topmost ones, so bold in size and so lovely with their spiral columns, almost seem to lift it.
The campanile to-day is 276 feet in height, and Giotto proposed to add to that a spire of 105 feet.

The Florentines completed the facade of the cathedral in 1887 and are now spending enormous sums on the Medici chapel at S.Lorenzo; why should they not one day carry out their greatest artist's intention?
The campanile as a structure had been finished in 1387, but not for many years did it receive its statues, of which something must be said, although it is impossible to get more than a vague idea of them, so high are they.

A captive balloon should be arranged for the use of visitors.