GENOESE GARDENS AND VILLAS. 
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was not unworthy of the best of this kind that he had so lately seen in Italy. Its astonishing 
boldness of scale provoked the lesser minds to declare that “ Mr. Surveyor” had dwarfed the 
majesty of royalty in the person of the King, who seemed lost_in an interior so untraditional. 
Something of the Genoese opulence of detail may thus have been transmitted, tending to 
modify the earlier severity of Jones’s devotion to Vincenza as the home of Palladio, and perhaps 
accounting for work like the Laudian additions (1631—35) to St. John’s College at Oxford. 
Soon after this period of great prosperity Genoa began to decline, the rise of the Turkish 
power caused the loss of her Eastern possession, while the French, under Duquesne, bom- 
barded the town in 1684. The city then sank into a lethargy, which the opening of the Suez 
Canal and the “ Resorgimento ” of Italy have to-day so effectively dispelled. 
Arthur T. Bolton, F.S.A. 
418. — VILLA GROPALLO 
