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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 106

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its semicircular end forms thewhole extent of the Cetinale garden. The olive-orchardsand corn-fields of the farm come up to the boundarywalls of the walk, and the wood is left as nature plantedit. Fontana, if it was indeed he who laid out this simplebut admirable plan, was wise enough to profit by… … SIENESE VILLAS As charming in its way, though less romantic andoriginal, is the Marchese Chigis other seat of Vicobello,a mile or two beyond the Porta Ovile, on the other sideof Siena. Vicobello lies in an open villa-studdedcountry in complete contrast to the wooded hills aboutCetinale. The villa…

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