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Italian gardens (1907)

Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 93

An illustration from Italian gardens, 1907, leaf 93
with toy windmills, like those still sold at country fairs, orplay with a bird tied at one end of a string, just as they do in Italy to-day, and a maid wheels a very primitive perambulator, chariot shapedwith solid wheels. In another picture two men are shown playing aball-game with long-handled… … VILLA FALCONIERI The steep rough lane, or rather bed of mountain torrent, which skirtsthe Villa Lancellotti winds upward between terraces of corn and vine andolive to the Villa Falconieri, The first indication of the villa is a handsome gateway on the left,wrongly attributed to Vignola. This is in…

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