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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 130

An illustration from Italian villas and their gardens, 1904, leaf 130
ot only of French,but of Italian landscape-architecture; and M. Riat, in LArt des Jardins, repeats the legend of the VillaPamphily, while Dussieux, in his Artists Frangais aIEtranger, anxious to heap further honours on his com-patriot, actually ascribes to him the plan of the VillaAlbani, which was… … ,.,^^^^9 .V- ^- ROMAN VILLAS details of the Villa Ludovisi; but one need only comparethe dates of his gardens with those of the principalRoman villas to see that he was the pupil and not themaster of the great Italian garden-architects. The last great country house built for a Roman cardi-nal is…

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