Villas italiennes et de leurs jardins ; . uganeans;mais les bosquets de cyprès de la Villa dEste sont toosolemn, et le paysage romain est trop tosuffer d'août, la proximité de l'insignifiant. FRASCATI malade le groupe le plus connu de villas dans le Romancountry-side se trouve sur la colline au-dessus de Frascati. Ici, au milieu du xvie siècle, Flaminio Pon-zio a construit le palais de Mondragone pour CardinalScipione Borghese. En altitude entre la pendaison-woodsrises ilex la puissante pile sur sa projection de sous-sol. Thisfortress-comme rez-de-chaussée, avec de hauts-placés de windows, est commun à toutes les villas plus tôt sur le brig-

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Italian villas and their gardens; . uganeans;but the cypress-groves of the Villa dEste are toosolemn, and the Roman landscape is too august, tosuffer the nearness of the trivial. Ill FRASCATI The most famous group of villas in the Romancountry-side lies on the hill above Frascati. Here, in the middle of the sixteenth century, Flaminio Pon-zio built the palace of Mondragone for CardinalScipione Borghese. Aloft among hanging ilex-woodsrises the mighty pile on its projecting basement. Thisfortress-like ground floor, with high-placed grated win-dows, is common to all the earlier villas on the brig-and-haunted slopes of Frascati. An avenue of ancientilexes (now cruelly cut down) leads up through the parkto the villa, which is preceded by a great walled The villa was begun by Martino Lunghi the Elder, in 1567, for the CardinalMarco d Altemps, enlarged by Pope Gregory VII, and completed by Paul V andhis nephew, Cardinal Scipione Borghese. See Gustav Ebe, Die Spatrenaissance. 148 CASCADE AND ROTUNDA, VILLA ALDOBRANDINl, FRASCATI. VILLAS NEAR ROME courtyard, with fountains in the usual rusticated niches.To the right of this court is another, flanked by thesplendid loggia of Vignola, with the Borghese eaglesand dragons alternating in its sculptured spandrels, and a vaulted ceiling adorned with stucchi—one of themost splendid pieces of garden-architecture in Italy. At the other end of this inner court, which was for-merly a flower-garden, Giovanni Fontana, whose nameis identified with the fountains of Frascati, constructed atheatre cfeaii, raised above the court, and approachedby a double ramp elaborately inlaid in mosaic. Thisornate composition, with a series of mosaic niches sim-ulating arcaded galleries in perspective, is now in ruins, and the most impressive thing about Mondragone is thenaked majesty of its great terrace, unadorned save by acentral fountain and two tall twisted columns, and look-ing out over the wooded slopes of the park to Frascati, the Campagna, and the se

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