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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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shores the one place where he wishes to live. Here he can find rest, peace, and pleasant friendsbetter than anywhere else, he believes. This is along letter, and you see my days are very full. Moreto-morrow. T. Cernobbio, Lago di Como, OctoberMy dear M: We have had lunch with Mrs. Fisher at her villa.She has one interesting engraving showing Raphaelsketching on the head of a barrel the Madonna ofthe Chair from a peasant woman standing in a door-way. Was this famous picture painted in this way, Iwonder? Mrs. Fishers bedroom is most peculiar inits coloring and stucco; tiny scenes of the monumentsof Rome form a frieze about the top of the walls, andare framed in a colored stucco of roses, which extendswell out on to the ceiling. As one approaches the villa from the landing, thesteps by which one goes up to the main house aredecorated on either side by two life-size Cupids, theone playing a viol, the other a cello, and they almostconvinced me, with many other little details about the(214)
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AND COUNTRY SEATS house, that this is the actual place where the Duchessde Plaisance lived out her life of expiation. A small house at one side of the grounds containsbut one large room, built apparently for music alone.An organ is well placed, and the shape of the roomarranged for good acoustic results. The ceiling isdecorated in modern colorings, of carved wood, indesigns that complete the idea of a music room.Many photographs of her large anvil works in NewJersey bespeak Mrs. Fishers business life; for, likemyself, she has had a good deal to do with sternbusiness relations and situations at home. On thedeath of her husband she assumed the direction ofthe large business of which he had been the head andowner. She has the decoration of the Red Cross forthe volunteer help she rendered at the time of theJohnstown disaster. Here at Como she wisely takesa few months rest each year, and the Italians aboutthe lake have shown her many courtesies. I was notsurprised when she told me that sho

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