Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Century · leaf 64
periale, it may be said that theyhave the same impersonal official look as the Boboli. Castello and Petraia, situated a mile apart beyond thevillage of Quarto, were both built by Buontalenti, thatbrilliant pupil of Ammanatis who had a share in theplanning of the gardens behind the Pitti.… … FLORENTINE VILLAS of Zocchi, the eighteenth-century engraver, a semicir-cular space enclosed in a low wall once extended be-tween the house and the road, as at the neighbouringVilla Corsini and at Poggio Imperiale. It was an ad-mirable rule of the old Italian architects, where thegarden-space was…
