Romance of the Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

xx, 392 pp. Top page ridge gilt. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Eyes of a Basilisk (Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere); The Finding of Apollo (Villa Farnesina); A Cellini Casket (Villa Madama); Flower o' the Peach (Villa Aldobrandini); With Tasso at Villa d'Este (Villa d'Este); Mondragone (Villas Borghese and Mondragone); The Adventure of the Knight of the Brandished Lance (Villa Medici); The Ladies of Palliano Colonna Palace and Castle of Palliano); The Lure of Old Rome (Hadrian's Villa. Villas d'Este and Albani).