Italian Villas and Their Gardens

by Edith Wharton

INDEX

• 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]
• Colonna, 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]
• Naples, 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]
  • Capra, [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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