European and Japanese Gardens 
refuge. Its “casino,” or little house, was less a residence 
than a pleasure-house for their hours of relaxation or social 
amusement. Its alleys and terraces, walks and shelters took 
the place in their life which piazzas and “living-halls” do 
in ours ; in them they passed their leisure, walking with their 
friends, reclining under the arbors, lulled by the sound of 
the fountains ; reading, meditating and conversing, or giving 
“a SOMEWHAT PRETENTIOUS GATEWAY” 
Entrance to the Villa Colonna 
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