Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 170
Thisfortress-like ground floor, with high-placed grated win-dows, is common to all the earlier villas on the brig-and-haunted slopes of Frascati. An avenue of ancientilexes (now cruelly cut down) leads up through the parkto the villa, which is preceded by a great walled ■ The villa was begun by… … VILLAS NEAR ROME courtyard, with fountains in the usual rusticated niches.To the right of this court is another, flanked by thesplendid loggia of Vignola, with the Borghese eaglesand dragons alternating in its sculptured spandrels,and a vaulted ceiling adorned with stiicchi—one of themost splendid…
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