Trascrizione
What is now the long corridor overlooking Piazza Sordello was originally a series of rooms separated by walls that were demolished at the turn of the twentieth century. The traces of painting recovered outline the original layout of the rooms and stand as an extraordinary example of Medieval interior decor. The most elegant of these shows the elevation of a building with balconies, ogee windows and battlements; the topmost frieze shows the emblems of Francesco I Gonzaga, which date the decoration to the end of the 1300s.
The very long wooden ceiling is also fourteenth century, showing several Gonzaga coats of arms as well as geometric decorations on the beams and panels (called lattole or sbacchere) between one beam and another.