House and Garden 
that the origi¬ 
nal furniture, 
which formed a 
uniqueexample 
of eighteenth 
century design, 
was removed 
bodily to Milan 
by the Principe 
Trivulzio be¬ 
fore he sold the 
villa. The in¬ 
terior therefore 
presents but lit¬ 
tle of interest to 
the antiqua¬ 
rian. 
Looking out 
of the drawing¬ 
room windows 
there is a sheer 
drop of about 
twenty-five feet 
over a bastion- 
ed wall. Below us, the road, which we 
left as we entered the first iron gates, sweeps 
down the hill and circles to the north, 
separated from the house only by a little 
strip of cultivated ground. Hill and dale, 
as far as eye can reach, are covered with 
vineyards and 
olive trees, but 
with scarcely a 
house or farm 
in view, so 
sparsely pop¬ 
ulated is the 
adjoining coun¬ 
try. The gar¬ 
den presents no 
feature of in¬ 
terest — indeed 
there is nothing 
that can be 
truly called a 
garden. A bor¬ 
der of flowers 
runs along the 
lower wall of 
the terrace, 
which is cov¬ 
ered by such 
vines as the Vir¬ 
ginia creeper, 
wistaria and plumbago. A gravel path sepa¬ 
rates this border from a kitchen garden well 
stocked with artichokes. 
Lemon-trees in pots stand at regular inter¬ 
vals along the terrace, and at its farthest end 
from the house there is a small and tangled 
THE VILLA FROM THE ASCENDING ROAD 
THE ENTRANCE TO THE FLOWER CARDEN 
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