Italian villas and their gardens; . ure-house; S6 FLORENTINE VILLAS yet so little are they out of harmony with the surround-ing scene that nature has gradually taken them back toherself, has turned them into a haunted grove in whichthe statues seem like sylvan gods fallen asleep in theirnative shade. There are other Florentine villas which preserve tracesof their old gardens. The beautiful Villa Palmieri haskept its terrace-architecture, Lappeggi its fine doublestairway, the Villa Danti its grass-walk leading to agiant on the hilltop, and Castel Pulci its stately facadewith a sky-line of statu
Italian villas and their gardens; . ure-house; S6 FLORENTINE VILLAS yet so little are they out of harmony with the surround-ing scene that nature has gradually taken them back toherself, has turned them into a haunted grove in whichthe statues seem like sylvan gods fallen asleep in theirnative shade. There are other Florentine villas which preserve tracesof their old gardens. The beautiful Villa Palmieri haskept its terrace-architecture, Lappeggi its fine doublestairway, the Villa Danti its grass-walk leading to agiant on the hilltop, and Castel Pulci its stately facadewith a sky-line of statues and the long cypress avenueshown in Zocchis print; even Pratolino, so cruellydevastated, still preserves Giovanni da Bologna s colossalfigure of the Apennines. But where so much of greatervalue remains to be described, space fails to linger overthese fragments which, romantic and charming as theyare, can but faintly suggest, amid their altered surround-ings, the vanished garden-plans of which they formed apart. 57 SIENESE VILLAS.
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