The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
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atures to dominate the garden marked the decadence ofthe formal villa. Then came the barbarian hordes into Italy, and of theancient villas only a few fragments remain. During the Renaissance thevilla appeared again on the same lines as the old ones, and the style withvariations found its way to… … were extended out of all proportion, and the landscape gardener began towork at cross purposes with the architect. Formal villas lost caste. Mean-while there had been another invasion of Italy by barbarians, this timeinartistic Britishers, who bought up the Renaissance villas and improved
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