Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 243
untains. The Villa of Petraja, successfully held in 1364against Sir John Hawkwood by the Brunelleschi,to whom it then belonged, passed later throughthe Strozzi and Salutati families into the posses-sion of the Medici, and remained the property,of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany until, in 1859,it, with… … The Villa Petraja, Florence THE VILLA PETRAJA, FLORENCEfrom office, and with his young second wife,Camilla Martelli, went to live at Castello, wherehe surrounded himself with learned and illustriousfriends, and spent his leisure in scientific andagricultural pursuits alien to the tastes of theyoung…
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