Word: villa
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where the Medici, for a time, had apartments. The tower of this building dominates the city, and is the most prominent feature in every picture. Near this is the Uffizzi palace with its famous picture gallery. Here are many art treasures, including the Venus di Medici, found in the villa of Hadrian at Rome, the statue of Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors...
...conjectures as to the nature of the writing. At last an old peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar's own hand, met his eye, "The Gods confound me if I did not lose two millions of sesterces last night. My villa at Tibur and all the statues which my father brought from Ephesus must go to the auctioneer." In other words, Caius Julius Caesar had been "ground," and by no less a man than "the prudent Catiline...
...Minister Lowell makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Edward Burnett, at her beautiful and commodious villa in Southborough, near Boston. His library is on the third floor of the building, away from the noise of his grandchildren, with whom he is a great favorite. He still keeps his house at Cambridge, where some of his most famous poems were written. His long absence from this country has served to make him more of an American than ever in his feelings and tastes. Those who have seen him in his delightful retreat at Southborough come away with the impression that...
...historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves in summer and their networks in winter. And far away rose the hills that bounded the view, with the glimmer here and there of the white walls or the illuminated casements of some embowered. half-hidden villa. Eastwardly also, the prospect was, in my earlier remembrance, widely open, and I have frequently seen the sunlit sails gliding along as if through the level fields, for no water was visible. So there were broad expanses on two sides at least, for my imagination to wander over...
Prof. C. W. Shield, of Princeton, is to have a $50,000 villa at Newport...