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C-. .-= ,- -._ ::: .• ••• the nave and aisles of Sant' Ambrogio ,"£? ^iui i_ I were divided in the usual way with ! *^^T ^^ / ^"" arcades, and were covered with open timber roofs. In the rebuilding of the church (fig. 35) the nave (38 ft. wide) was divided into four square bays, and compound piers of large dimensions were built, to carry the transverse and diagonal ribs of the new vault. To resist the thrust, the walls across the aisles were built up to the roof, and had external buttresses; the diagonal ribs, inst…

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Vol. 2, pp. 392-392