Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 154
, or an ilex grove with seats set about some sylvan god. The villa, then known as Schifanoja, came into the hands of MatteoPalmieri, an able scholar and friend of Cosmo de Medici, about theyear 1450; but it was not until 1670 that Palmiero Palmieri, a descendantof his, built the present palace (or… … presenting towards the garden a long low two-storied facade, which isdecorated, not unpleasantly, in colour, with a geometrical panelling.Raised above the flat tiled roof is that most essential feature of theTuscan villa, a belvedere or loggia. Here, unhappily, its five arches havebeen glazed and…
Gardens
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