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THE GARDENS OF ITALY. 
stands on a great platform 
some eighty yards broad, 
made by levelling the top 
of the hill and building 
great walls, forty feet 
high, on three sides. 
Entered from the loggia 
(Fig. 318) is a great 
vaulted hall, with a plain 
barrel vault ; it seems 
even larger and more 
impressive than that at 
Poggio Cajano (I'ig. 287). 
The onlv later note is 
four frescoed panels of 
the eighteenth century 
by Alenucci and Boti, 
enclosed in prominent 
plaster mouldings. Inner 
doors and linings of that 
322.- -vii.L.\ DEI COLLAZZI : GENERAL VIEW. latcr period have also 
been added, the original 
walnut doors being merely hung to iron hooks in the jambs of the thick masonry walls. The older 
rooms have open joisted ceilings and heavy wood main beams with painted decoration, which is 
323.— THE ENTRANCE TO THE VILLA. 
