ARCHITECTURE Architecture of Mediaeval Italy--Milan, Genoa, Venice--The Despots as Builders--Diversity of Styles--Local Influences--Lombard, Tuscan, Romanesque, Gothic--Italian want of feeling for Gothic--Cathedrals of Siena and Orvieto--Secular Buildings of the Middle Ages--Florence and Venice--Private Palaces--Public Halls--Palazzo della Signoria at Florence--Arnolfo di Cambio--S.

Maria del Fiore--Brunelleschi's Dome--Classical Revival in Architecture--Roman Ruins--Three Periods in Renaissance Architecture--Their Characteristics--Brunelleschi -- Alberti--Palace-building--Michellozzo--Decorative Work of the Revival--Bramante--Vitoni's Church of the Umilta at Pistoja--Palazzo del Te--Villa Farnesina--Sansovino at Venice--Michael Angelo--The Building of S.Peter's--Palladio--The Palazzo della Ragione at Vicenza--Lombard Architects--Theorists and Students of Vitruvius--Vignola and Scamozzi--European Influence of the Palladian Style--Comparison of Scholars and Architects in relation to the Revival of Learning..