During his travels, Ruskin saw decay and restoration everywhere. In his letters to his father from Italy, there are pages and pages of anger for the loss of familiar works of art, such as the destruction of two Giotto’s frescoes in the Campo Santo of Pisa; he exclaimed his feelings for the “Poor old Baptistery - all its precious old carving is lying kicking about the grass in frontof it - the workmen are wonderful at the ‘knockin’ down’, like Sam Weller (Pickwick Papers, ch. 37- 38)”. (131) In Verona, he was just in time to see