PISA.

CAMPO SANTO.

Drawn by G. Cattermole, from a Sketch by William Page.

THE Campo Santo is one of the most interesting objects in the city of Pisa. It is one of four remarkable buildings, which, brought together within the same piazza, surpass, in the singularity of the coup d'œil which they effect, that of any other assembly of structures perhaps in the world. These four buildings are— the Leaning Tower, the bell of which tolled the signal of the revolution of Ugolino, whose dreadful fate is immortalised by Dante-the Baptistry-the Duomoand the Campo Santo.

This extraordinary building was erected by the Pisan republic in the thirteenth century; and Giovanni Pisano, a celebrated sculptor and architect, was engaged in its execution. Though his labours ceased here in 1283, it continued to receive, throughout the fourteenth century, many of its present ornaments and enrichments.

Its form is a parallelogram, and in the centre is a place of sacred burial. The earth which fills it was transported thither by the Pisan navy from Jerusalem. Around the enclosure are four grand corridors or cloisters, lit from the centre by sixty-two Gothic arcade