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Italian Villas and Their Gardens

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Acqua Sola, gardens of, 42, 53

Albani, Cardinal, 113

Albani, Villa, Pietro Nolli’s work on, 110; Antonio Nolli’s work on, 113

d’Albaro, San Francesco, villas at, 188

Alessi, Galeazzo: Strada Nuova, 176; Villa Imperiali (Scassi), 179; Villa Paradiso, 189; Villa Cambiaso, 189

Algardi, Alessandro, 109

Ammanati, Bartolommeo, Boboli garden, 25; Villa di Papa Giulio, 84

Anguissola, Count, 212

Arethusa, grotto of, at Villa d’Este, 147

Battaglia, castle of Cattajo at, 233

Bernini, 185

Bisuschio: see Villa Cicogna

Boboli garden, 25; Isola Bella in, 29

Bologna, Giovanni da, 37; figure of the Apennines, 57

Bombicci, Villa, 53

Borghese, Cardinal Scipione, 148

Borghese, Villa, 107

Borromean Islands, 197

Borromeo, Cardinal Charles, 201

Borromeo, Count Vitaliano IV, 198

Borromini, 163

Botanic Garden at Padua, 239

Bramante: Vatican gardens, 81; double staircase in the Vatican, 97

Brenta, the, 233, 243

Brown, “Capability,” 205

Brunswick, Caroline of, 184

Buonaccorsi: see Vaga

Buontalenti, 25

Burnet, Bishop: description of Isola Bella,

Cadenabbia, 214

Cafaggiuolo, Villa, 30

Caffè at the Villa Albani, 114

Cagnola, Villa, 219

Cambiaso, Villa, 189

Cambiaso, Villa: see Paradiso

Campi, Villa, 54

Campiobbi, 48

Camporesi, 108

Canopus, Valley of, at Villa of Hadrian, 148

Capra, Villa, at Vicenza, 246

Caprarola, 97; Vignola’s casino, 131; château d’eau, 131

Careggi, Villa, 30

Carloni, the: statue of Neptune in Villa Doria, 175

Carlotta, Villa, at Cadenabbia, 214

Casino of the Aurora, 119

Casino del Papa: see Villa Pia

Castelli: terraces on the Isola Bella, 198

Castello, Giovanni Battista, 173

Castello, Villa, 30

Cattajo, castle of, 233

Cecchignola, hunting-lodge of, 119

Celimontana, Villa, 119

Cetinale, Villa, 64; hermitage at, 66

Châteaux d’eau at the Villa Aldobrandini, 152; Villa Borghese, 107; Caprarola, 131; Villa Cicogna, 217; Palazzo Colonna, 119; Villa Conti, 155; Villa d’Este at Tivoli, 144; Villa Lante, 136; Lancellotti, 164; Mondragone, 151; Val San Zibio, 237

Chigi, Flavio, 65

Chigi, Villa, 117

Cicogna, Villa, 214; château d’eau, 217

Clement VII: see Medici, Giuliano de’

Colonna, Cardinal, 83

268Colonna, Palazzo, 118; château d’eau, 119

Como, villa of Bishop of, 213

Conti, Villa: see Torlonia

Cordova, Cardinal Bishop of, 140

Corsini, Villa, 48

Crivelli, Villa, near Inverigo, 218

Crivelli: work on the Isola Bella, 198

Cuzzano, Villa, 250

Danti, Villa, 48, 57

De’ Gori, Villa: see Palazzina, La

Durazzo-Grapollo, Villa, 186

Dussieux, 110

Este, Cardinal Ippolito d’, 140

Este, Villa d’, at Cernobbio, 208

Este, Villa d’, at Tivoli, 139; grotesque garden-architecture, 29; Ligorio’s work, 140; frescoes of the Zuccheri, 143

Evelyn, description of Villa Medici, 89; of Villa Doria, 175

Falconieri, Villa, 160

Farnese, Cardinal Alexander, 127

Farnese gardens, 97

Ferrara, Alfonso I of, 140

Ferri, Antonio, 48

Fontana, Carlo: Cetinale, 65; palace and garden-pavilions on the Isola Bella, 198

Fontana, Giovanni: Villa Borghese, 107; théâtre d’eau at Mondragone, 151; waterworks at the Villa Aldobrandini, 152

Fonte all’ Erta, 51

Frascati, jeux d’eaux in villas, 107; characteristic features of villas, 139

Gallio, Cardinal, 184

Gambara, Cardinal, 132

Gamberaia, Villa, 45

Garden, Botanic, at Padua, 239

Garden-house at Caprarola, 131

Garden-house at Strà, 244

Gardens: Acqua Sola, 185 Boboli, 25 Farnese, 97 Florentine, English influence on, 21 Genoese, characteristics of, 178 Giusti, 250 Pigna, 82 Vatican, 98

Genoa, villas of, 173

Giacomelli, Villa, 249

Giulio, Villa di Papa, 84

Giusti gardens, 250

Giustiniani, Villa, 174

Grotto at Villa Castello, 34; at Villa d’Este, 147; at Villa Gamberaia, 45

Hermitage at Cetinale, 66

Imperiali, Villa, at Sampierdarena: see Villa Scassi

Imperiali, Villa, at San Fruttuoso, 190

Isola Bella, Lake of Como, 198; Bishop Burnet’s description of, 201

Isola Bella in Boboli garden, 29

Isola Madre, Lake of Como, 197

Julius III, 84

Juvara, 231

Lancellotti, Villa, 164

Lante, Villa, 132; château d’eau, 136; gardens, 97

Le Nôtre, 110, 139

Ligorio, Pirro, 98; Casino del Papa, 98; Villa d’Este at Tivoli, 140

Lippi, Annibale, 90

Lomellini, Villa, 174

Longhena, 232

Ludovisi, Villa, 119

Maison de plaisance, the, 22

Malcontenta, Villa della, 245

Malta, Villa of the Knights of, 117

Marchionne, Carlo, 113

Mattei, Villa, 119

Medici, Eleonora de’, 25

Medici, Giuliano de’ (Clement VII), 82

Medici, Villa, 89

Michelangelo: Villa Bombicci, 53; Villa di Papa Giulio, 84

Modena, Villa of Duke of, at Varese, 224

Mondragone, 97; work by Flaminio Ponzio, 148; Vignola’s loggia, 151; Giovanni Fontana’s théâtre d’eau, 151

Montaigne: description of Castello, 33

Montalto, Cardinal, 132

Montorsoli, Fra., 174

Moore, Jacob, 108

Mora, 198

Muti, Villa, 159

269Naples, King of, 83

Negroni, Villa, 119

Nolli, Antonio, 113

Nolli, Pietro, 110

Olivieri, Orazio, 147

Padua, Botanic Garden, 239; Prato della Valle, 240

Palazzina, La, 71; theatre at, 72

Palladio, 180, 232

Pallavicini, Villa, at Pegli, 185

Pallavicini alle Peschiere, Villa, 185, 180

Palmieri, Villa, 57

Pamphily, Villa, 109; théâtre d’eau, 110

Papa, Casino del: see Villa Pia

Papa Giulio, Villa di, 84

Paradisino, Villa, 189

Paradiso, Villa, 189

Parigi, Giulio, 38

Parma, Duchess of, 83

Parodi, Palazzo, 177

Peruzzi, Baldassare, at Belcaro, 63; at Vicobello, 69

Peter Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 38

Petraia, Villa, 30; fountain at, 37

Pia, Villa, 140

Pigna, Giardino della, 82

Piranesi, 117

Pisani, Alvise, 243

Pisani, Villa, at Strà, 244

Pius IV, 98

Pliniana, Villa, 212

Poggio a Caiano, 30

Poggio Imperiale, 38

Ponzio, Flaminio, 148

Porta, Giacomo della, 144; Villa Aldobrandini, 151

Prati, 243

Pratolino, Villa, 30, 57

Priorato, Il: see Villa of the Knights of

Malta

Pulci, Castel, 57

Rainaldi, Girolamo, 107

Raphael, 82

Repton, Humphrey, 205

Riario, Cardinal, 132

Ridolfi, Cardinal, 132

Romano, Giulio, 82

Rotonda Cagnola: see Cagnola

Rotonda Capra: see Capra

Rubens, 176

Ruffini, Cardinal, 163

Ruggieri, 223

Sacchetti, Villa, 119

Sampierdarena, 33

Sangallo, Antonio da, 82; A. da Sangallo the Younger, 104

Sangallo, Giuliano da, 38, 82

Sansovino, 232

Savino, 107

Scassi, Villa, 179

Sixtus V, 132

Strà, Villa Pisani at, 244

Strada Nuova in Genoa, 176

Tiepolo: Villa Pisani, 244; Villa Valmarana, 249

Tito, Santi di, 53

Torlonia, Villa, 155

Tribolo, Il: Boboli garden, 25; fountain at Castello, 33; at Petraia, 37

Udine, Giovanni da, 83

Vaga, Pierin del, 173

Valmarana, Villa, 249

Val San Zibio, Villa of, 237

Vasanzio, Giovanni (Il Fiammingo), 107

Vasari, 84

Vatican, gardens of, 81

Venetia, villa-architecture of, 232

Vigna del Papa: see Villa di Papa Giulio

Vignola: Villa di Papa Giulio, 84; Farnese gardens, 97; Caprarola, 131; loggia at Mondragone, 151

Villa: Ai Collazzi: see Bombicci Alario: see Visconti di Saliceto Albani, 110, 113 Aldobrandini, 151 Belcaro, 63 Belrespiro: see Pamphily Bombicci, 53 Borghese, 107 Cafaggiuolo, 30 Cagnola, 219 Cambiaso (Paradiso), 189 Cambiaso, by Alessi, 189 Campi, 54 Capponi at Arcetri, 48 270Capra, 246 Caprarola, 97 Careggi, 30 Carlotta, 214 Castel Pulci, 57 Celimontana, 119 Cetinale, 64 Chigi, 117 Cicogna, 214 Conti: see Torlonia Corsini, 48 Crivelli, 218 Cuzzano, 250 Danti, 48, 57 De’ Gori: see Palazzina, La Doria in Genoa, 175 Durazzo-Grapollo, 186 d’Este at Cernobbio, 184 d’Este at Tivoli, 139 Falconieri, 160 Fonte all’ Erta, 51 Gamberaia, 41 Giacomelli, 249 Giustiniani, 174 Imperiali at San Fruttuoso, 190 Imperiali: see Scassi Isola Bella, 198 Lancellotti, 164 Lante, 97 Lappeggi, 57 Lomellini, 174 Ludovisi, 119 Madama, 82 Malcontenta, 245 Malta, of the Knights of, 117 Medici, 89 Mondragone, 97 Muti, 159 Negroni, 119 Palazzina, La, 71 Pallavicini at Pegli, 185 Pallavicini alle Peschiere, 185 Palmieri, 57 Pamphily, 109 di Papa Giulio, 84 Paradisino, 189 Paradiso: see Cambiaso Petraia, 30 Pia, 140 Pisani, 244 Pliniana, 212 Poggio a Caiano, 30 Poggio Imperiale, 30 Pratolino, 57 Priorato, del: see Malta Rotonda: see Cagnola and Capra Sacchetti, 119 Scassi, 179 Torlonia, 155 Valmarana, 249 Val San Zibio, 237 Vicobello, 69 Visconti di Saliceto, 220

Villa suburbana, the, 22

Villas of the Brenta, 240; of the Brianza, 218; Florentine, 19; Genoese, 173; Milanese, 197; Roman, 81; Sienese, 63; Venetian, 231

Vismara, 198

Xanten, John of: see Vasanzio

Zocchi, etchings by, 33

Zuccheri, the, 85, 143

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