Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

by Elizabeth W. Champney

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
		[Introduction]
[I.]	—	The Eyes of a Basilisk
		(Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere)
[II.]	—	The Finding of Apollo
		(Villa Farnesina)
[III.]	—	A Cellini Casket
		(Villa Madama)
[IV.]	—	Flower o' the Peach
		(Villa Aldobrandini)
[V.]	—	With Tasso at Villa d'Este
		(Villa d'Este)
[VI.]	—	Mondragone
		(Villas Borghese and Mondragone)
[VII.]	—	The Adventure of the Knight of theBrandished Lance
		(Villa Medici)
[VIII.]	—	The Ladies of Palliano
		(Colonna Palace and Castle of Palliano)
[IX.]	—	The Lure of Old Rome
		(Hadrian's Villa. Villas d'Este and Albani)

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ILLUSTRATIONS

IN PHOTOGRAVURE

• [Pope Julius II. Viewing the Newly-found Statue of the Apollo Belvedere Frontispiece]
  From the painting by Carl Becker. Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co.
• [The Borgias]
  From a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Pope Alexander VI. regards the dancing children, Lucrezia plays the viol, Cesar beats time with his stiletto on the stem of a wine glass.) Permission of George Bell & Sons.
• [Pope Leo X. at Raphael's Bier]
  From the painting by Pietro Michis. Permission of Franz Hanfstaengl.
• [Face of Young Girl in the Coronation of the Virgin]
  By Fra Filippo Lippi. Permission of Alinari.
• [The Floral Games]
  From the painting by Jacques Wagrez. Permission of Braun, Clement & Co.
• [In the Garden of Villa d'Este]
  From a photograph by Mr. Charles A. Platt.
• [Choosing the Casket]
  From the painting by F. Barth. Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co.
• [Antinous as Bacchus, in the Museum of the Vatican]
  Permission of Alinari.

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