ILLUSTRATIONS
OTHER THAN PHOTOGRAVURE
- [*Cæsar Borgia]
- [*Caterina Sforza. Castle of Forlì in Background]
By Palmezzani. - [*Unknown Lady (probably Imperia)]
By Sebastian del Piombo. Uffizi. - [*Virgin and Child]
By Sodoma. Pinacoteca, Milan. - [*Raphael and Sodoma]
Fragment of School of Athens, in the Vatican—Raphael. - [*Villa Farnesina, Rome]
- [*Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Sodoma]
From the portrait by himself in the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore.
*By permission of Messrs. Alinari. - [*Margherita (La Fornarina)]
Attributed to Raphael. Pitti Gallery, Florence. - [*Pope Leo X., Giulio de Medici (afterward Pope
Clement VII.), and Luigi de Rossi]
By Raphael. Pitti Gallery. - [Villa Madama]
- [Detail of Vault in Villa Madama]
Stucchi by Giovanni da Udine. - [Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Parma, 1586]
From an old engraving. - [Stucchi by Giovanni da Udine]
Villa Madama. - [Villa Madama—Interior]
- [*Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati.]The Grand Cascade and Fountain of Atlas
- [*Upper Cascade, Villa Aldobrandini]
- [*Villa d'Este, at Tivoli—Present State]
- [Hydraulic Organ, Villa d'Este]
- [Villa d'Este in 1740]
From an etching by Piranesi. - [*Villa d'Este—Terrace Staircase]
*By permission of Messrs. Alinari. - [*Fountain in Gardens of the Villa Borghese]
- [*Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese]
Portrait statue by Canova at Villa Borghese. - [Henri IV. Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici]
Painted at her order by Rubens. - [View from the Garden of the Villa Medici]
- [Colonna Palace, Rome—The Grand Salon]
- [Garden of the Colonna Palace, Rome]
With permission of Charles A. Platt. - [Castle of Vittoria Colonna at Ischia]
- [The Cascade]
Villa Conti Torlonia, Frascati. - [The Haunted Pool]
Villa Conti Torlonia, Frascati. - [Vittoria Colonna]
From a portrait in the Colonna Gallery. - [Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna]
From a portrait in later life by Netscher. - [Court of the Massimi Palace]
- [Marie Mancini Colonna, Principessa di Palliano]
By Mignard. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin.
*By permission of Messrs. Alinari. - [Antinous]
Bas-relief found at Hadrian's Villa, now in the Villa Albani. - [Ruins of a Gallery of Statues in Hadrian's Villa]
From an etching by Piranesi. - [*Villa Pia in Garden of the Vatican]
Pirro Ligorio, architect. - [*Villa Pia, Vatican]
The rotondo—Pirro Ligorio, architect. - [Eros Bending the Bow]
Capitoline Museum. - [Faun of Praxiteles]
Capitoline Museum. - [Villa Albani]
- [*Casino, Villa Albani]
- [*Candelabra from Hadrian's Villa]
Museum of the Vatican. - [*Urania]
Museum of the Vatican. - [View through the Key-hole of the Gate of the Villa
of the Knights of Malta]
*By permission of Messrs. Alinari.
ROMANCE OF ROMAN VILLAS
CHAPTER I
THE EYES OF A BASILISK
(AN EPISODE OF THE FRENCH WARS IN ITALY, FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE GOOD KNIGHT YVES D'ALLEGRE)
I