In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . dei Colli tram, from the Piazza delDuomo. Monte San Miniato turns out to be ratherless a mountain on close acquaintance than its namewould suggest, and for many reasons the trampingway is the best way of all to come to its from the Porta Romana, at the beginningof the road to Rome, the pedestrian resists forthis time, at least, the seizing desire actually to takethe old road for the Imperial City and chooses ratherthe very modern Viale Machiavelli (left) that runsuphill to Villa Poggio Imperiale. This historica
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . dei Colli tram, from the Piazza delDuomo. Monte San Miniato turns out to be ratherless a mountain on close acquaintance than its namewould suggest, and for many reasons the trampingway is the best way of all to come to its from the Porta Romana, at the beginningof the road to Rome, the pedestrian resists forthis time, at least, the seizing desire actually to takethe old road for the Imperial City and chooses ratherthe very modern Viale Machiavelli (left) that runsuphill to Villa Poggio Imperiale. This historicalproperty belonged, under the name of Poggio Baron-celli, to one Pietro Salviati, a bitter opposer of theMedici. Later, on the banishment of Salviati, it 315 2l6 Outside the Walls came into the hands of his enemies, and was rebuiltand extended by them, especially by Cosimo II forhis Austrian wife, the Grand-duchess Maria Mad-dalena. In one of the rooms Isabella Orsini(daughter of Cosimo I) was strangled by herwronged husband, and in front of the villa occurred. Starting from the Porta Romana at the beginning of theroad to Rome. a famous duel between Ludovico Martelli and Danteda Castiglione on one side, and Giovanni Bandiniand Bertino Aldobrandi on the other—a fieryquartette of scions of Florences noblest lively old villa is now sufficiently common-place as a government conservatory for youngwomen. Lined by a continuous series of expensive modernvillas and elaborate gardens, the Viale Machiavelli
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