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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 



stands on a great platform 

 some eighty yards broad, 

 made by levelling the top 

 of the hill and building 

 great walls, forty feet 

 high, on three sides. 

 Entered from the loggia 

 (Fig. 318) is a great 

 vaulted hall, with a plain 

 barrel vault ; it seems 

 even larger and more 

 impressive than that at 

 Poggio Cajano (Fig. 287). 

 The only later note is 

 four frescoed panels of 

 the eighteenth century 

 by Menucci and Boti, 

 enclosed in prominent 

 plaster mouldings. Inner 

 doors and linings of that 

 later period have also 

 been added, the original 



walnut doors being merely hung to iron hooks in the jambs of the thick masonry walls. The older 

 rooms have open joisted ceilings and heavy wood main beams with painted decoration, which is 



322. VILLA DEI COLLAZZI : GENERAL VIEW. 



323. THE ENTRANCE TO THE VILLA. 



