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their charm only to their delightful position and 

 the two loggie of the beautiful house. This villa 

 is historically of much interest, and permission to 

 visit it is sometimes given by Cavalliero Camillo 

 Bonda, Manefattura di Signa, Florence, to whom 

 it belongs. 



VILLA SALVIATI, FLORENCE. 



THIS villa belonged, in the fourteenth century, to 

 the Del Palagio, and from them, a century later, 

 passed to the Da Montegonzi. In 1469 Arcan- 

 giolo di Messer Bartolommeo sold it for 1,800 

 golden florins to Alamanno Salviati. It was here, 

 according to tradition, that Jacobo Salviati received 

 the head of the beautiful and unhappy Caterina 

 Canacci, slain by his wife, Veronica Cybo. 



The villa was in later years the property of 

 Prince Borgese, then of Mr. Vansittart, and then 

 of Mario, the famous singer. It now belongs to 

 Madame Turri, who bought it in 1 900. 



The garden is perfectly kept and very charming, 

 but except the delightful little sunk parterre and 

 the magnificent stanzone, none of it is formal. 



It is not usually shown. 



VILLA GAMBERAIA, SETTIGNANO, 

 FLORENCE. 



THE name of Gamberaia first occurs in a document 

 at the Badia of Florence containing a transfer dated 



