about the same distance from Rome as 

 Tivoli, and with very much the same sit- 

 uation and character of country (except 

 that it is less abrupt), is Frascati, which contains 

 a very remarkable collection of villas. Though none 

 of them were so elaborately conceived or so per- 

 fectly carried out as the Villa d'Este, and though 

 in their present condition there is no individual villa 

 of any striking importance, yet, taking the place 

 as a whole, there is none where one finds so many 

 villas so closely interwoven with one another, and 

 where the Italian villa can be studied to greater 

 advantage. 



The villas Aldobrandini and Conti are the most im- 

 portant. 



The former has to some extent been kept up, and 

 is now in a comparative state of completeness, but, un- 

 fortunately, where the earlier architectural work has 

 given out, it has been replaced by something that 



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