Italian villas and their gardens; . VILLAS NEAR ROME. VILLA DESTE, TIVOLI IV VILLAS NEAR ROME CAPRAROLA AND LANTE THE great cardinals did not all build their villaswithin sight of St. Peters. One of them,Alexander Farnese, chose a site above themountain village of Caprarola, which looks forth overthe Etrurian plain strewn with its ancient cities — Nepi,Orte and Civita Castellana—to Soracte, rising solitaryin the middle distance, and the encircling line of snow-touched Apennines. There is nothing in all Italy like Caprarola. Burck-hardt calls it perhaps the highest example of restrainedmajesty
Italian villas and their gardens; . VILLAS NEAR ROME. VILLA DESTE, TIVOLI IV VILLAS NEAR ROME CAPRAROLA AND LANTE THE great cardinals did not all build their villaswithin sight of St. Peters. One of them,Alexander Farnese, chose a site above themountain village of Caprarola, which looks forth overthe Etrurian plain strewn with its ancient cities — Nepi,Orte and Civita Castellana—to Soracte, rising solitaryin the middle distance, and the encircling line of snow-touched Apennines. There is nothing in all Italy like Caprarola. Burck-hardt calls it perhaps the highest example of restrainedmajesty which secular architecture has achieved; andHerr Gurlitt makes the interesting suggestion thatVignola, in building it, broke away from the traditionalpalace-architecture of Italy and sought his inspiration inFrance. Caprarola, he says, shows the northerncastle in the most modern form it had then attained. . IX 127 ITALIAN VILLAS We have to do here with one of the fortified residencesrarely seen save in the north, but doubtless necessaryin a
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