These walls were not finished till some, time after Arnolfo's death.

They lost their ornament of towers in the siege of 1529, and they are now being rapidly destroyed.
[19] From Perkins's _Tuscan Sculptors_, vol.i.p.

54.

A recent work by Signor G.J.Cavallucci, entitled _S.

Maria del Fiore_, Firenze, 1881, has created a revolution in our knowledge regarding this church.
[20] Giov.