The Italian Formal Garden 



lie either on the hillsides — e.g., the Villa Pia and the Vatican 

 Gardens, the Villa Barberini — now greatly altered, I under- 

 stand, from its pristine state and used as an insane asylum — 

 close to St. Peter's ; the Villas Lante and Corsini, contiguous 

 to the public parkway of the Passeggiata Margherita ; or out- 

 side the walls, like the immense Villa Pamfili Doria, outside 

 the Porta S. Pancrazio ; the Villa Borghese, also of vast extent, 

 and, like the Pamfili Doria, comprising both picturesque parks 

 with winding drives and the formal gardening I have been de- 

 scribing ; and the magnificent Villa Albani, the most formal 

 and monumental of all the Roman gardens, near the Porta 

 Salaria. 



THE ONE AT TIVOLI ' 



the Villa d'Este 



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