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was not unworthy of the best of this kind that he had so lately seen in Italy. Its astonishing 

 boldness of scale provoked the lesser minds to deelare that "Mr. Surveyor" had dwarfed the 

 majesty of royalty in the person of the King, who seemed lostjn an interior so untraditional. 

 Something of the Genoese opulence of detail may thus have been transmitted, tending to 

 modify the earlier severity of Jones's devotion to Vincenza as the home of Palladio, and perhaps 

 accounting for work like the Laudian additions (1631 35) to St. John's College at Oxford. 

 Soon after this period of great prosperity Genoa began to decline, the rise of the Turkish 

 power caused the loss of her Eastern possession, while the French, under Duquesne, bom- 

 barded the town in 1684. The city then sank into a lethargy, which the opening of the Suez 

 Canal and the " Resorgimento " of Italy have to-day so effectively dispelled. 



ARTHUR T. BOLTON, F.S.A. 



418. VILLA GROPALLO 



