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358 358 ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE. Part IL designs, — perhaps the only instance in which an addition of that age and style has improved a building of the Gothic period. Cora- paring this hall as it stands with that at Padua, it must be admitted that the Italians were perfectly correct in abandoning their Gothic for the revived classical style, the improvement being apparent on the most cursory inspection, A number of the town-halls or Brolettos in the smaller towns still 786. Palace of the Juriscousults at Creinona. (,Froiii Street,.) remain unaltered, or nearly so, and retain all the peculiarities of their oa'iginal design. The Palace of the Jurisconsults at Cremona for instance (Woodcut No. 786) only requires its lower arcades to be again opened to present all its original features, which resemble in almost every respect those of the jialazzo at Piacenza above mentioned, excej)t that the latter has live arches below and six windows above, instead of two and three as here shown. This