PALAZZO DORIA, GENOA 55 
curcuit is that of the Prince d’Orias, which reaches from the sea to the sumit of the 
mountaines. ... To this Palace belongs three gardens, the first whereof is beautified with a 
terrace, supported by pillars of marble ; there is a fountaine of eagles and one of Neptune, with 
other Sea-gods all of the purest white marble; they stand in a most ample basin of the same 
stone. At the side of this garden is such an avairy as Sir Fra. Bacon describes in his Sermones 
fidelium, or Essays, wherein grow trees of more than two foote diameter, besides cypresse, myrtils, 
lentises, and other rare shrubs which serve to nestle and pearch all sorts of birds, who have ayre 
and place enough under their ayrie canopy, supported with huge iron worke, stupendous for its 
fabnck and the charge. The other two gardens are full of orange trees, citrons, and pomgranads, 
fountaines, grottos, and statues; one of the latter is a Colossal Jupiter, under which is the 
Sepulchre of a beloved dog, for the care of which one of this family received of the K. of Spain, 
500 crownes a yeare during the life of that faithfull animal. The reservoir of water here is a 
most admirable piece of art; and so is the grotto over against it. . . .’ 
The irregularity of the palace buildings is cleverly hidden by two fine loggias thrown out 
as wings from the main building, which besides screening an otherwise awkward line of frontage, 
