Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Century · leaf 272
other example ofGenoese suburban architecture. Almost alone amongGenoese villas, it stands at the foot of a hill, with gar-dens rising behind it instead of descending below it tothe sea. Herr Gurlitt thinks these grounds are amongthe earliest in Italy in which the narrow mediaeval Jiortusinchtsus… … fe GENOESE VILLAS in the Scassi gardens, has shown to the full his charac-teristic gift for preserving unity of conception in multi-plicity of form. There could be no better definition of the garden-science of the Italian Renaissance; and if, as it seemsprobable, the Scassi gardens are earlier in…
