Note 238 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]
Reading edition
See Barros, Asia, 1. vi. 7. Beckford has glowing praise for ‘this gold custodium of exquisite workmanship’: ‘Nothing could be more beautiful as a specimen of elaborate Gothic sculpture than this complicated enamelled mass of flying buttresses and fretted pinnacles’ (Italy, with Sketches of Spain and Portugal, Paris, 1834).