ITALIAN GARDENS OF THE RENAISSANCE 
Boccaccio and Bembo, in the verse of Poliziano and 
Ariosto. But the enthusiasm for beauty and the 
ardent love of Nature which inspired their creators are 
themes of which the scholar and the poet will never 
tire. 
Four of these studies appeared in the Nineteenth 
Century and After , and are reprinted by the kind 
permission of the editor, Mr. Wray Skilbeck. The 
paper on “ Cardinal Bembo and his Villa ” first saw the 
light in the Comhill. , that on “The Certosa of Val 
d’ Ema ” was published many years ago in the Portfolio , 
then edited by Mr. Philip Hamerton, and is now 
reprinted by Messrs. Seeley’s permission, while I have to 
thank Mr. John Murray for leave to include in this 
volume the account of the warrior Guidarelli’s “ Tomb 
at Ravenna,” which originally appeared in the Monthly 
Review. The article on Giovanni Costa, the Roman 
painter and patriot, was first published in the National 
Review , and is reprinted by the courtesy of Mr. Leo 
Maxse; that on “ Bianca Sforza,” the short-lived 
daughter of Lodovico Sforza, whose portrait in the 
Ambrosian Library we all know, is entirely new. 
JULIA CARTWRIGHT. 
Ockham, October i, 1914. 
Vili 
