Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 170
useppeZocchi, and, though we may be grateful for even these, they are but apoor substitute for the invaluable prints by Falda, Venturini and the rest. Zocchi devotes one of his engravings to the Villa Corsini, butpresents us, as he so often does, with its least interesting aspect. This isthe… … Petraja and the hilly landscape, the most interesting part of the picturebeing some peasants who play a game of bowls on the green sward withmuch energy and gesticulation. Like its neighbour, the Villa Reale, this villa stands at the pointwhere the broad plain and the foot-hills join, and, as it…
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