ITALIAN GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE 



Boccaccio and Bembo, in the verse of Poliziano and 

 Ariosto. But the enthusiasm for beauty and the 

 ardent love of Nature which inspired their creators are 

 themes of which the scholar and the poet will never 

 tire. 



Four of these studies appeared in the Nineteenth 

 Century and After, and are reprinted by the kind 

 permission of the editor, Mr. Wray Skilbeck. The 

 paper on " Cardinal Bembo and his Villa " first saw the 

 light in the Cornhill, that on "The Certosa of Val 

 d' Ema " was published many years ago in the Portfolio, 

 then edited by Mr. Philip> Hamerton, and is now 

 reprinted by Messrs. Seeley's permission, while I have to 

 thank Mr. John Murray for leave to include in this 

 volume the account of the warrior Guidarelli's " Tomb 

 at Ravenna,'* which originally appeared in the Monthly 

 Review. The article on Giovanni Costa, the Roman 

 painter and patriot, was first published in the National 

 Review, and is reprinted by the courtesy of Mr. Leo 

 Maxse ; that on " Bianca Sforza," the short-lived 

 daughter of Lodovico Sforza, whose portrait in the 

 Ambrosian Library we all know, is entirely new. 



JULIA CARTWRIGHT. 

 OCKHAM, October i, 1914. 



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