Lexicographical Neighbors of Braccia
Literary usage of Braccia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources by Louis A. Waldman (2004)
"... et quello costeranno insino posti in barcha a' marina:2 8 pezzi di marmo
segnati A, d'altezza di braccia 2И et grossezza braccia 1'À per ogni verso, ..."
2. Character of Renaissance Architecture by Charles Herbert Moore (1905)
"II THE DOME OF FLORENCE we learn that the base of the dome, which was to be built
solid to the height of 5 j braccia, was to consist of six courses of long ..."
3. The Educational Significance of Sixteenth Century Arithmetic from the Point by Lambert Lincoln Jackson (1906)
"The braccia was equivalent to 31 inches. ... an area of l/a punto braccia by 1
braccia is an area of 1 oncia braccia by 1 ... braccia fia punti, fanno atomi ..."
4. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists by John William Bradley (1889)
"They were to be of Carrara marble, two braccia high, except the two of Christ
and the two angels placed at the extremities of the cornices. ..."
5. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"On this rose first the inner shell of the dome, 3^ braccia thick at the base,
diminishing to 2-1 braccia at the lantern. Around this was a second shell. ..."
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