A Letter to Pliny Relating to the Villa Castello 
THE VILLA CASTELLO, From the Carriage Road 
The Villa is the Light Building in the Center of the Picture; Beyond is an old Conucnt 
CAPRI, ITALY 
THE MAIN EN'l RANCE FROM '1 HE STREET 
In the Background is a IVell Court ’with Oleanders and Japanese Bamboo 
to the piazza of the village, and then by 
vaulted passages rather extravagantly called 
streets, under and around houses, until you 
reach an iron gateway letting in by a broad 
passage under a part of the house to a little 
court. In the center of this is a great corn 
jar, which would perhaps strike you as 
familiar, out of which springs a red oleander 
of no mean size. Around the court are 
Japanese bamboo and Banksia roses, and 
from one side a marble stairway ascends to 
the main door of the house and the general 
level of the garden. 
Mounting this you would find yourself in 
a long L shaped loggia, the arches of which, 
closed in winter by glass, open on to the little 
court and look across it, through the branches 
of the oleander and the tops of the bamboo, 
to the garden. On the walls of the first 
rooms you enter from the loggia, there are 
placed, as there were at your Laurentine 
Villa, “ cases containing a collection of 
authors who can never be read too often,” 
and through these rooms you pass over the 
street by which you came and out on to a 
large terrace lying in the northerly side of 
the house above the arches which you saw 
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