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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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ere returning also froma row on the lake. They had motored down fromBalsamo, their summer villa near Milan, and theMarchesa has asked us to dine with her the latter partof this week. What did people do before the inventionof automobiles.? It seems to me the whole world hasbeen quartered in size,^ and society made infinitelybroader and more agreeable from the possibility ofhaving a larger circle of friends that one can see soeasily and so often. To-morrow will be another busyday. Cernobbio, Lago di Como, OctoberMy dear M: It has been impossible to write for a few days, wehave been so very busy, and have repeated many of thegood times and luncheons in the various villas that Ihave written you about already; but yesterday morningwe had a genuine surprise, for who should appear atthe early hour of ten oclock but Prince Hercolani,who has come up from Bologna and is on his way toMarchesa Trottis, where to his regret he is only tomake a call, as his affairs in Bologna will not permit of(216)
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AND COUNTRY SEATS his staying away just now, as he had expected. Wehave been so busy that until this morning I had seenvery Uttle of the gardens at the back of the villa. Wetook a stroll up the hillside to the top of the fountain,under which the highroad from Cernobbio to the nexttown is curiously cut, the hillside on which the foun-tain flows serving as a sort of bridge. In a high recessat the top of these long cascades, lined on both sideswith roses, is placed a huge statue of Hercules, andvarious paths wind away from the fountain and onthrough the wooded garden. After luncheon Herco-lani took the steamer for Marchesa Trottis, and wewent off in the motor to take pictures, and to see thewonders of the Villa Visconti at Olmo. The villa was built on the ruins of a former villaof Caninio Ruffo, and was the favorite seat of Plinythe Younger, who is supposed to have planted one ofthe old elm trees on the small lawn toward the lakein front of the palace; this incident undoubtedly givesthe

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