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Italian castles and country seats (1911)

Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878- · New York, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 344

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the castle wasvery hastily and superficially built by Bernabo Vis-conti, and to-day it is interesting more as an historicalruin than as a place of residence. It is probably to acastle like Pandino, where peasants live in the greatvacant halls and rooms of the one-time majestic castle,where farm… … AND COUNTRY SEATS that their owners are either dead or poor, and that itis all a very great pity. To such I should say that,as Pandino is interesting architecturally and histori-cally, its wealthy owners do not tear it down; but thattheir life, of which the traveller knows little or nothing,is far…

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