lays on stolid man with Prospero's wand and Ariel's prank.

Then take these lines and add to them the lay
All inarticulate, I to thee indite;
The sudden longing on the sunniest day,
The happy sighing in the stormiest night,
The tears of love that creep
From eyes unwont to weep,
Full with remembrance, blind with joy and with devotion deep.[2]

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I.--THE EYES OF A BASILISK
(Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere)

II.--THE FINDING OF APOLLO
(Villa Farnesina)

III.--A CELLINI CASKET
(Villa Madama)

IV.--FLOWER O' THE PEACH
(Villa Aldobrandini)

V.--WITH TASSO AT VILLA D'ESTE
(Villa d'Este)

VI.--MONDRAGONE
(Villas Borghese and Mondragone)

VII.--THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE
BRANDISHED LANCE
(Villa Medici)

VIII.--THE LADIES OF PALLIANO
(Colonna Palace and Castle of Palliano)

IX.--THE LURE OF OLD ROME
(Hadrian's Villa. Villas d'Este and Albani)

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ILLUSTRATIONS

IN PHOTOGRAVURE

_Pope Julius II. Viewing the Newly-found
Statue of the Apollo Belvedere_ _Frontispiece_

_From the painting by Carl Becker. Permission of
the Berlin Photographic Co._

_The Borgias_

_From a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Pope
Alexander VI. regards the dancing children, Lucrezia
plays the viol, Cesar beats time with his stiletto
on the stem of a wine glass.) Permission of George
Bell & Sons._

_Pope Leo X. at Raphael's Bier_

_From the painting by Pietro Michis. Permission of
Franz Hanfstaengl._

_Face of Young Girl in the Coronation of the
Virgin_

_By Fra Filippo Lippi. Permission of Alinari._

_The Floral Games_

_From the painting by Jacques Wagrez. Permission
of Braun, Clement & Co._

_In the Garden of Villa d'Este_

_From a photograph by Mr. Charles A. Platt._

_Choosing the Casket_

_From the painting by F. Barth. Permission of the
Berlin Photographic Co._

_Antinous as Bacchus, in the Museum of the
Vatican_

_Permission of Alinari._

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ILLUSTRATIONS

OTHER THAN PHOTOGRAVURE

*_Caesar Borgia_

*_Caterina Sforza. Castle of Forli in Background_
_By Palmezzani._

*_Unknown Lady_ (_probably Imperia_)
_By Sebastian del Piombo. Uffizi._

*_Virgin and Child_
_By Sodoma. Pinacoteca, Milan._

*_Raphael and Sodoma_
_Fragment of School of Athens, in the Vatican--Raphael._

*_Villa Farnesina, Rome_

*_Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, called Sodoma_
_From the portrai