Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Century · leaf 47
hbecame fashionable in the seventeenth century is tem-pered by a restraint and severity peculiarly Tuscan.So numerous and well preserved are the buildings 19 ITALIAN VILLAS of this order about Florence that the student who shouldattempt to give an account of them would have beforehim a long and… … ^1 ■-..irWft.T- VILLA GAMBERAIA, AT SETTIGNANO, 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…
