;F the Villa Pamfili the flower-garden is all 

 that has kept its original form, and here 

 the details of the arrangement of the " par- 

 terre " have been quite changed, and are now very 

 much too hard and cut up. The disposition of the 

 house in relation to the garden is somewhat similar 

 to that at Lante, the house making a part of the 

 terrace which overlooks it, the difference being that 

 there is here but one house facing the centre of the 

 garden, instead of one at either end. The garden oc- 

 cupies an enormous space at the south of the house, 

 its west end being cut out of the side of a hill and 

 walled in, and its east end forming a terrace. To see 

 this garden to advantage one should be either in it 

 or in the house, as from a distance the boxlike form 

 of the building offends one's sense of proportion. The 

 original scheme of the architect was never carried 

 out, if we are to believe an old print, which adds two 

 long wings to the house, and gives, in connection with 



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