Italian Villas and Their Gardens

By: Wharton, Edith

For centuries Florence has been celebrated for her villa-clad hills. According to an old chronicler, the country houses were more splendid than those in the town, and stood so close-set among their olive-orchards and vineyards that the traveller "thought himself in Florence three leagues before reaching the city." Many of these houses still survive, strongly planted on their broad terraces, from the fifteenth-century farmhouse-villa, with its projecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B087CRN3D2
• ISBN13: 9798637086290
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"