LOGGIA, lodia (It., lodge, gallery). An Italian word, somewhat loosely used to designate any roofed structure open on one or more sides to the weather: an arcade, gallery, porch, veran da, or isolated shelter. it is thus applied to such varied buildings as the following prominent ex amples: (1) The Loggie of the Vatican, the three superposed arcades of the Court of San Damaso, decorated by Raphael and his successors; (2) the open porch in front of the Church of Santa Maria Belle Grazie at Arezzo. by Benedetto da Majano; (3) the two-storied arcade or veranda of the Farnesina at Rome by Peruzzi (1517) ; (4) the Loggia del Bigallo at Florence, a small but ornate fourteenth-century porch or entrance to a fraternity hospital now disused; (51 the great Loggia dci Lanzi at Florence, an isolated vaulted shelter for the lancers or civic guard, built in 1376 probably by Benci di Clone, and now used as a museum of statuary; (6) the Loggia dei Nobili, of approximately the same date and style. and (7) the Loggia del Papa. built in 1462,
both at Siena, open vaulted shelters by the side of the street: and (S) the Loggia dei Banchieri at Genoa, built in 1570 to serve as an exchange. an open vaulted hall 60 by 90 feet. now closed in with glass. In American usage the word gen erally means a room open on one side to the air.
LOGHEM, 15'geni, MARTINUS CESINUS LAM BERT VAN ( 1849— ) , A Dutch poet and novelist, born at Leyden. After 1877 he lived in Amster dam, where he was first employed in teaching. then in practicing law, but after 1883 devoted himself exclusively to journalism and literature. A narrative poem, "Rene liefde in bet Zuiden" ("Love in the South"), published 1881 under the pseudonym Fiore della Neve, met with uncommon success, and was followed by the lyric cycles Liana (18S2). Fan ccn 8ultane (1884). and Walter (1892). Ile proved himself an admirable delineator of character in his novel Victor (188S), and the collections of stories Bland en Blaun' (188S) and Panache