House and Garden 
THE VILLA FROM THE BOWLING-GREEN 
statue. This balustrade and statue are re¬ 
peated again at the farther end of the bowl¬ 
ing-green, that which overlooks the Y r al 
d’Arno and the plain of Bagni-a-Ripoli, fa¬ 
mous as the camping ground of the Imperial 
troops who besieged Florence in 1529 under 
Philibert, Prince of Orange. 
So far, all remains as it was in the good 
old times, but only a few conventionally cut 
alaternus bushes and three turf steps sepa¬ 
rate the old garden from the new. This new 
garden, laid out by the present owner of 
Gamberaia, lies to the south of the villa on a 
somewhat lower level than that of the bowl- 
THE PLAN OF THE GARDENS AT GAMBERAIA 
( Especially measured and drawn for House and Garden ) 
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