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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Porta Saleria, that behindit were the countless treasures of rare marbles, finearchitecture, old bronzes, priceless tapestries, paintingsunnumbered and Roman excavations carefully arrangedin the most artistic fashion. The fountains were play-ing this afternoon, and the golden sunshine of this earlywinter, which is still most temperate, lent an incompar-able charm to this wonderful Villa Albani. Torlonia isthe name, really, of Giovannis mother, who broughtan enormous dot as her marriage portion to PrinceBorghese of the great Borghese family, that gavePaul V to the Vatican and many distinguished mento history. By arrangement of the marriage con-tract, the great Borghese was to renounce his namein favor of his wife, and the children were to beknown as Torlonia. I think Prince Giovannis titleactually is Prince of Fucino, but no one by anychance ever speaks of him in that way. He is a dep-uty to the Parliament and one of the richest men inItaly, but best of all, he is our good friend.(370)
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y Mrs. Batcheller HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARGHERITA In her Salo7i at the Castello of Stupinigi AND COUNTRY SEATS We had a delightful time strolling through thegrounds; Don Giovanni did everything to make theafternoon enjoyable, and had the whole villa openedfor us. He cares very little for society, but we hopeto see him now and then at little dinners. His villadiffers from the others of Italy, because it was con-structed primarily to be a treasure-house; a suitabledwelling for many rare antiquities and art wondersthat the great Cardinal Albani and his intimatefriend Winckelmann, whom he persuaded to comeand live with him, devoted many years to collect-ing. One has the sensation of having come to amagical palace by the wave of a fairy godmotherswand, and one feels as if in the soft lights of evening,mystical beings of great beauty must frequent the place,and finding the marble halls as beautiful as themselves,begin to dance in the soft moonlight to the music of thespraying fountains, runnin

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