Villas italiennes et leurs jardins. Entrée circulaire avec des statues du gardien sur des socles puissants. Poggio Imperiale a été pendant trop longtemps la rescence préférée des Médicis grand-ducal, et de leurs succèsde Lorraine, de ne pas souffrir beaucoup de changements, et de perdre, un par un, toutes ses caractéristiques les plus typiques. A l'intérieur, il y a un beau tribunal entouré d'une salle de jeux ouverte, probablydue à Giulio Parigi, qui, à la fin du sixteenthsiècle, a terminé les modifications de la villa en accord avec les plans de Giuliano da Sangallo; et les vastes salles de suitesof sont intéressantes pour l'étudiant de la décoration,si

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Italian villas and their gardens . circular entrance-court with itsguardian statues on mighty pedestals. Poggio Imperiale was for too long the favourite resi-dence of the grand-ducal Medici, and of their successorsof Lorraine, not to suffer many changes, and to lose, one by one, all its most typical features. Within thereis a fine court surrounded by an open arcade, probablydue to Giulio Parigi, who, at the end of the sixteenthcentury, completed the alterations of the villa accordingto the plans of Giuliano da Sangallo; and the vast suitesof rooms are interesting to the student of decoration, since they are adorned, probably by French artists, withexquisite carvings and stiicchi of the Louis XY andLouis XVI periods. But the grounds have kept littlebesides their general plan. At the back, the villa opensdirectly on a large level pleasure-garden, with enclosingwalls and a central basin surrounded by statues; butthe geometrical parterres have been turned into a lawn.To the right of this level space, a few steps lead down 3^. GAMBERAIA FLORENTINE VILLAS to a long terrace planted with ilexes, whence there is afine view over Florence—an unusual arrangement, asthe bosco was generally above, not below, the flower-garden. If, owing to circumstances, the more famous pleasure-grounds of Florence have lost much of their antiquecharm, she has happily preserved a garden of anothersort which possesses to an unusual degree the flavour ofthe past. This is the villa of the Gamberaia at Setti-gnano. Till its recent purchase, the Gamberaia had formany years been let out in lodgings for the summer, and it doubtless owes to this obscure fate the completepreservation of its garden-plan. Before the recent alter-ations made in its gardens, it was doubly interestingfrom its unchanged condition, and from the fact that, even in Italy, where small and irregular pieces of groundwere so often utilized with marvellous skill, it was prob-ably the most perfect example of the art of producing agreat ef

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