Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

by Elizabeth W. Champney

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.

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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