Found inside – Page 172con , Marchese della Valle Siciliana , the Villa Anspach , on the hill of Posilipo ; general of Charles V. , and it was then built by the Margravine of Anspach , so far from the city , that a tower , still whose son , Mr. Keppel Craven , left it visible , was ... Found inside – Page 94The beginning of the Strada , as far as the Frisio , 11/2 M. from the end of the Villa Nazionale , has been described at p . 88. The road leaves the sea and ascends in windings round the spur of the hill . To the left are the villas Rocca Romana ... Found inside – Page 400“ La villa romana di San Pietro di Tolve dalla proprietà senatoria a quella ... Recycling in late Roman villas in southern Italy , Mouseion : Journal of the ... Found inside – Page 157Prima Porta and the Villa of Livia ( 7 miles ) , a pleasant excursion . The Villa Madama ( t fr . ) , by G. Romano , from Raphael's designs for Cardinal Giulio de ' Medici , afterwards Clement VII . Notice fountain basin , also frescoes and mouldings ... Found insideIt's also reflected in its lush villas (many now turned into palatial hotels), manicured gardens and one of Italy's finest musical festivals (thank Wagner's ... Found insideThe area was dotted with lavish Roman villas and prosperous cities well into the imperial age. Capua and Pozzuoli had the two largest amphitheaters in Italy ... Found inside – Page 16Numerous relics of ancient buildings are still extant on the whole bay , which , like the bay of Naples , was a favourite resort of the Roman nobles , and was covered with the most sumptuous villas . Tradition has assigned several of these to ... Found inside – Page 191in tracing out the remains of all the twelve villas of Tiberius . Besides the Villa Tiberiana and the Villa di Giove , these are the Villa Giunone ( before reaching S. Maria del Soccorso ) ; the Palazzo della Marina , where an altar of Cybele and ... Found inside – Page 257Villa of Lucullus , some scanty ruins on the heights ; the Grotto Dragonara , a long subterranean passage , with columns supporting a vaulted roof , whether reservoir or magazine is uncertain . Near this point two mediæval watch - towers are ... Found inside – Page 76In combination with work such as the Canadian programme of villa - excavation in southern Italy ( Small 1977 , 1979 ) , a wealth of new evidence is emerging . That in many areas the time is no longer optimum for field survey is , on the other ... Found inside – Page 292By the fourth century the great villas that had been present in the first and ... at probable uicus sites at San Giusto and Metapontum in southern Italy. Found inside – Page 219Being a Guide for the Continental Portion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Including the City of Naples and Its Suburbs John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt. CASTELLAMMARE , AND SORRENTO . Villa Maio , on the high ground at of the ... Found inside – Page 87It leads between many beautifully situated villas , commanding exquisite views , and should on no account be omitted from the traveller's programme . Tramway , see No. 1 , p . 22 . Immediately at the beginning of the street rises the Villa Angri . Found inside – Page 185It is now let out in apartments , Villa Rocca Romana , on the slope of Villa Floridiana , on the Vomero , de- Posilipo , the pagoda of the Duke of rives its name from the second wife of the same name , known for its zooloFerdinand IV . , Lucia ... Found inside – Page 172con , Marchese della Valle Siciliana , the Villa Anspach , on the hill of Posilipo , general of Charles V. , and it was then built by the Margravine of Anspach , so far from the city , that a tower , still whose son , Mr. Keppel Craven , left it visible , was ... Found inside – Page 185Villa Belvedere , on the Vomero , be- is remarkable for the beauty of its posilonged formerly to the Principe di Belve- tion . dere . It is now let out in apartments , Villa Rocca Romana , on the slope of Villa Floridiana , on the Vomero , de- Posilipo ... Found inside – Page 527 93 203 Northern Ital Bellavista Winery 40 | Byblos AIX'IOIGI Villa ... 200 Southern Italy Apollonio Casa Vinicola 218 | Borgo Egnazia Hotel & Villas 220 ... Found inside – Page 191191 there at the house of Murena , the studded with Roman villas . Scipio Afbrother of Licinia , whom Mecænas ricanus and Lælius were in the habit of married ) calls it the “ city of the retiring there and amusing their leisure Mamurræ " ( Sat. 1. Found inside – Page 88It leads between beautifully situated villas with luxuriant vegetation , commanding exquisite views , and should on no account be omitted from the traveller's programme . Tramway No. 1 , see p . 23 . A pleasant excursion may be made by boat ... Found inside – Page 74The delightful promontory of Posillipo has since Roman days been the setting for luxurious villas ; the most famous of the ancient buildings , Vedius Pollio's Villa Pausilypon , which later belonged to Augustus , gave its name to the hill . Found inside – Page 57... taking up a retirement in the Villa Iovis; he never returned to Rome. ... extraordinary in a member of Rome's nobility having a villa in southern Italy. Found inside – Page 160the cellar and cistern hown in the rock are interestiny . The road then passes the ( 1. ) Villa Guarracino and ( r . ) the Villa Rubinacci or Rotonda , traverses the long suburb , and soon reaches the Piazza of Sorrento : Sorrento . Hotels . Found inside – Page 113Of advantage in the midst of trees several interpretations given of and vineyards . this work the most probable is Near the Roman gate is the that the subject alludes to the festivals established in Egypt villa D'Este , built by a cardinal under the ... Found insideThey indeed had the most beautiful villa in southern Italy, a nice Italian car, a great cook, and a guard to keep an eye on their villa. Found inside – Page 66ExPERIENCE: Enjoy Villa Concerts The sheer number of visitors can spoil trips to the villa San Michele. Enjoy it in relative peace during one of the jazz or ... Found inside – Page 347The recently discovered fourth century villa at Faragola in southern Italy preserves another water triclinium with a stibadium comparable to the El Ruedo ... Found inside – Page 88It leads between beautifully situated villas with luxuriant vegetation , commanding exquisite views , and should on no account be omitted from the traveller's programme . Tramway No. 1 , see p . 23 . A pleasant excursion may be made by boat ... Found inside – Page 65... taking up a retirement in the Villa Iovis ; he never returned to Rome . ... in a member of Rome ' s nobility having a villa in southern Italy . Found inside – Page 88It leads between beautifully situated villas with luxuriant vegetation , commanding exquisite views , and should on no account be omitted from the traveller's programme . Tramway No. 1 , see p . 23 . A pleasant excursion may be made by boat ... Found inside – Page 169The villas and estates confirm the acculturation of the rural landscape of southern Italy into a fully Romanized agricultural economy with varied terms of ... Found inside – Page 123... for instance, in Southern Italy.84 It is conceivable that the industrial production of textiles took place predominantly in villas located in areas with ... Found inside – Page 164Pliny tells us that the the Ponte di Caligola , from an erro- villa was situated on the seashore neous impression that it was between Puteoli and Avernus , that it nected with the bridge of boats , at- was admired for its portico and its tached , as ... Found inside – Page 160cess museum of vases , antiquities , etc. , is al is remarkable for the beauty of its posibronze table , found at Pæstum in 1829 , tion . with a Latin inscription relating to the Villa Roccaromana , on the slope of election of a Protector of that City . Found inside – Page 471... the remarkable work of Giuliano volpe and his colleagues has shown what this new southern italy looked like to those who owned the land. Great villas ... Found inside – Page 198and villa - studded cliffs , and from the wind - swept Salto di Tiberio to the cloud - capped summit of Solaro , which scrapes the blue Italian skies with its rocky crenellations more than nineteen hundred feet above the even bluer Italian sea . Found inside – Page 425On each of the ten days spent in these two villas ten lively tales were related whose plots were collected by Boccaccio ... others from the fabliaux brought from Provence by the French Trouvères or by the Normans to southern Italy ; the tales of ... Found inside – Page 147Meta ( Trattoria Villa di Sorrento ) is a town of 8000 inhab . , with two small harbours . The modern church of the Madonna del Lauro , on the high - road , occupies the site of a temple of Minerva . ( Route to Camaldoli di Meta , see p . 152. ) ... Found inside – Page 284This drive follows the shores of the southern arms of Lake Como. past sumptuous villas and gardens, historic towns, resorts and fishing villages. Found inside – Page 100Of the imposing baths and villas of the Romans , the foundations of which were often thrown far out into the sea , nothing but fragments now remain . In modern times these ruins are often exalted into temples , or otherwise dignified in a ... Found inside – Page 119The only link was the Scala Fenicia, an 882-step path built by ExPERIENCE: Villa Concerts The sheer number of visitors can spoil trips to the villa San ... Found inside – Page 87It leads between many beautifully situated villas , commanding exquisite views , and should on no account be omitted from the traveller's programme . Tramway , see No. 1 , p . 22 . Immediately at the beginning of the street rises the Villa Angri . Found inside – Page 190Three miles beyond is the Villa Spada , around which formerly existed the ancient city Fidenæ , the ally of Veii , one of the most powerful Etruscan opponents of Rome , 400 B.C. Also may be visited if time and opportunity afford :Grove of the ... Found inside – Page 97Here also the scattered fragments of the Villa Pausilypon of Vedius Pollio ( p . 93 ) are visible , extending from the slope of the hill down to the sea , and overgrown with myrtles , erica , and broom . – In the adjoining property , visible through the ... Found inside – Page 139The out with skill ; but the chief interest façade , courtyard , and staircase were of the Villa is the view , especially restored by Sanfelice . towards Naples , which is nowhere seen Palazzo Sirignano , opposite the Fon- to more advantage . Found inside – Page 302On the lords and ladies of Rome , who came countryside there were hills to be thither in the afternoons to enjoy the crowned with villas . crowned with villas . Near by was the luxury of lassitude and the quickening Lucrine lake , and as the ... Newly retired and looking for more than a vacation, John and Nancy Petralia intrepidly pack a few suitcases and head to the "perfect" Italian city for a year. Found inside – Page 244B. Munro, “Recycling in Late Roman Villas in Southern Italy: Reappraising Hearths and Kilns in Final Occupation Phases,” Mouseion, 10 (2010), 217–43; ... 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