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A building so colossal in extent, and so monotonously meagre in conception, could not but have been a failure. Vol. II., Revival of Learning, chap, 1. The following passage quoted from Milizia, Memorie degli Architetti, Parma, 1781, vol. i. p. 135, illustrates the contemptuous attitude of Italian critics to Gothic architecture.
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