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Italian villas and their gardens (1904)

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937, Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 · New York : The Century Co. · leaf 39

An illustration from Italian villas and their gardens, 1904, leaf 39
ashionable in the seventeenth century is tem-pered by a restraint and severity peculiarly Tuscan. So numerous and well preserved are the buildings 19 n A L I A N \M L L A S of this order about Florence that the student who shouldattempt to give an account of them would have beforehim a long and… … VILLA CAMBERAIA, AT SETTICNANO, NEAR FLORENCE gardens as the neighbourhood of Florence. Variouscauses have brought about this result. The environsof Florence have always been frequented by the wealthyclasses, not only Italian but foreign. The Tuscannobility have usually been rich enough to alter…

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