" It is the glory of the Italian garden architects 

 that neglect and disintegration cannot wholly mar 

 the effect they were skilled in creating effects due 

 to such a fine sense of proportion, to so exquisite a 

 perception of the relation between architecture and 

 landscape, between verdure and marble, that while 

 a trace of their plan remains one feels the spell of 

 the whole." 



Italian Villas and their Gardens. 



