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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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tan branch of the great family of that name,and it is Donna Imogene who is the Veneziana, forshe was born in Padova. Their little son Giachino isquite as Neapolitan, though rather darker than hisfather, whose constant companion he is each day.Under his fathers instruction he is becoming a won-derful shot, and we often have the result of his bagat dinner. He is also very artistic, and in his studyroom his governess showed me some really excellentdrawings he had recently finished. I had no idea that the province of Venetia wasso beautiful, and had so many definite characteristicsquite apart from any other portion of Italy. Thearchitecture is distinctly different. The highways arelined with trees beside which are great, deep ditches.Here and there and everywhere are cut canals, whichmade it possible for the proud Venetians to leavetheir palaces in Venice, and make their triumphaljourneys into the country without stepping from theirgondolas. Inside the villas one finds a special kind(152)
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AND COUNTRY SEATS of stucco that is strikingly effective, and our dinner-table at night is frequently set with the priceless Muranoporcelain of this province, while many of the elaborateglass mirror frames that are given the same name hangon the walls. My room is done all in blue, and large old paintingsby Venetian masters are set into the walls, an elaboratestucco forming graceful and attractive frames. I wassomewhat at a loss to know what the tall blue cylinderin the corner was meant to be, but on examination itproved to be a stove, which, however, I shall probablynot need at this season of the year. No one expectsme to appear at breakfast, and one is left very muchthe same freedom as in English houses; but introduc-tions, once you are invited to the house, are neveromitted or forgotten, and we feel already perfectly athome, even though it seems a bit odd to be the actualguests of a Marcantonio Colonna, who is generallyconnected in our minds with the famous hero of theBattle of Lepa

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