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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXXIX: Gothic Kingdom Of Italy
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15,) where there is likewise an engraving from a mosaic in the church of St.
Apollinaris in Ravenna, representing a building ascribed to Theodoric in that city.

Neither of these, as Mr.Hallam justly observes, in the least approximates to what is called the Gothic style.

They are evidently the degenerate Roman architecture, and more resemble the early attempts of our architects to get back from our national Gothic into a classical Greek style.

One of them calls to mind Inigo Jones inner quadrangle in St.John's College Oxford.

Compare Hallam and D'Agincon vol.i.


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