Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 249
e planes and firs, avenues of ilex and clumpsof cypresses give coolness in the August heats,the Pontiff passing his early mornings and sultryafternoons within these shaded walks. But his winter exercise is taken in the sunlit,treeless garden, where a few palms cast no shade,and where, between the… … lira NiM.ap,l^i% The Sunk Garden,The Vatican, Rome THE SUNK GARDEN, THE VATICANbuilt for Pius IV by Pirro Ligorio, the architectwho built the Villa dEste. The classicalgateway, with its two flights of steps and ovalfountain between them, was also made by orderof Pius IV, and may be his work. It…
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