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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4

Note 520 — BOOK XII[500]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

The Church of San Apollinare, erected under Theodoric at the commencement of the sixth century, also presents the Byzantine type in all its oriental brilliancy. The twenty-four columns of Greek marble which divide the church into three aisles were brought to Ravenna from Constantinople.—T.

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