cortile

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 250 words | Copyright

cortile (pl. cortili). Internal area (cortis) or courtyard of a palazzo, often with arcades or colonnades rising several storeys, and open to the sky (as in various Florentine palazzi) or roofed (as in Barry's Reform Club, London (1837–41) ).

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