rHE GARDENS OF ITALY. 
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built over thirty-four classic tombs of great bt'auty, forming “ a small village with streets, side 
walks and squares.” It stands high above the city, and merits its old name of Belrespiro. Of 
all Italian palaces, it most resembles an English country seat ; it is surrounded by a 
fairly extensive, undulating park, which is plentifully timbered with ilexes and stone pines. 
Nearer the house a cool, dark wood is railed off and remains inaccessible to the ordinary^ 
visitor. The villa is surrounded by a finely laid out formal garden, with geometrical beds set 
in box edging, and is adorned with fountains and sundials, statues, and lemon trees in terra- 
cotta vases. The prospects from the garden are entrancing and full of interest. In one direction 
the eye travels over the wide campagna to where Monte Cavo, with its flat top, the site of the 
ancient temple of Jupiter Latiarius, towers above the range of the Alban hills, while, looking 
in the opposite direction, there is such a view' of St. Peter s as can be obtained from no other 
128.— CASCADES, W'ESTERN GARDENS. 
point. The great mass of Vatican buildings, surmounted bv the dome, is seen by itself, cut 
off from the rest of Rome bv the intervening hills. Behino rises Monte Mario and far away 
Soracte couches dimly on the plain. 
There are no traces of Donna Olimpia’s reign to be seen at the superb Pamphilj palace 
in the Piazza Navona, where she spent more than half her life, but in the villa which she planned 
and her son built are to be seen inscriptions and busts. In the past there were many more, but 
the best were moved for greater security' to the Dona palace. In that gallery we find Innocent X 
both in marble and bronze bv Bernini, as well as Pamfilio Pamphilj, Olimpia s husband, a 
fine-looking man in his Spanish ruff and seventeenth century dress. Here, too, is Olimpia her- 
self, represented as no longer young, but still handsome, with piercing eyes, marked eyebrows, 
and close-shut mouth— in sum, a strong, resolute and imperious face. 
