FLORENTINE VILLAS 
yet so little are they out of harmony with the surround- 
ing scene that nature has gradually taken them back to 
herself, has turned them into a haunted grove in which 
the statues seem like sylvan gods fallen asleep in their 
native shade. 
There are other Florentine villas which preserve traces 
of their old gardens. The beautiful Villa Falmieri has 
kept its terrace-architecture, Lappeggi its fine double 
stairway, the Villa Danti its grass-walk leading to a 
giant on the hilltop, and Castel Pulci its stately facade 
with a sky-line of statues and the long cypress avenue 
shown in Zocchi’s print; even Pratolino, so cruelly 
devastated, still preserves Giovanni da Bologna’s colossal 
figure of the Apennines. But where so much of greater 
value remains to be described, space fails to linger over 
these fragments which, romantic and charming as they 
are, can but faintly suggest, amid their altered surround- 
ings, the vanished garden-plans of which they formed a 
part. 
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