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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 
came to Rome and, being very learned, was set to expound the Fathers to the Abbot of 
SS. Apostoli, the monastery which lies just below the hill. He remained a long time as his guest, 
and the abbot and the imperious monk formed a firm friendship. No doubt they often walked 
in the Colonna Gardens, and Peretti, when he beeame Sixtus V in 1585, had learned to love 
the high, healthy air of the Quirinal hill. Gregory XIII had already begun building there, and 
Sixtus carried on and extended his plans, and so was built the palace in which till 1870 the 
Popes resided for a part of every year. It was already a favourite site for gardens. Beside, 
those of Cardinal d’Este, Cardinal Carafa’s gardens stretched along the site of the modern 
Via XX Settembre. It soon became the fashion to build summer palaces on the Quirmal hills 
as being healthier than the lower levels of Rome, and safer than journeying beyond the walls. 
Sixtus V died here, and since his time twenty-one other Popes have also died at the Quirinal, each 
making the curious bequest of his heart and viscera to the Church of SS, Vincent and Anastasius. 
91. — THE WESTERN G.VRDEN. 
