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380 380 ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE. Part. II, of the cathedral at Bittonto is its south front, one angle of which is shown in the woodcut ; but which becomes richer towards the east, where it is adorned with a portal of great magnificence and beauty. The richness of its open gallery (under what was the roof of the side- aisles) is unsurpassed in Apulia, and probably by anything of the same kind in Italy. The fa9ade of San Nicolo at Bari (1197) is something like the last-mentioned, except that handsome Corinthian columns have been Mi',1. iev ot the Interior of Sail Xicolo, Bari. (From Scliultz.) borrowed from some older building, and add to the richness of the design, though they hardly can be said to belong to the composition. Internally this church seems to have displayed some such arrangement as that of San Miniato (Woodcut No. 797). Instead, liowever, of im- proving upon it, as might be expected from the time that had elapsed since the previous one was erected, the Southern architect hardly knew the meaning of what he was attem]iting. Regrouped together the three pillars next the entrance, and threw arches across the nave