t by himself in the Abbey of Monte
Oliveto Maggiore._

*_By permission of Messrs. Alinari._

*_Margherita_ (_La Fornarina_)
_Attributed to Raphael. Pitti Gallery, Florence._

*_Pope Leo X., Giulio de Medici_ (_afterward Pope
Clement VII._), _and Luigi de Rossi_
_By Raphael. Pitti Gallery._

_Villa Madama_

_Detail of Vault in Villa Madama_
_Stucchi by Giovanni da Udine._

_Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Parma, 1586_
_From an old engraving._

_Stucchi by Giovanni da Udine_
_Villa Madama._

_Villa Madama--Interior_

*_Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati. The Grand
Cascade and Fountain of Atlas_

*_Upper Cascade, Villa Aldobrandini_

*_Villa d'Este, at Tivoli--Present State_

_Hydraulic Organ, Villa d'Este_

_Villa d'Este in 1740_
_From an etching by Piranesi._

*_Villa d'Este--Terrace Staircase_
*_By permission of Messrs. Alinari._

_*Fountain in Gardens of the Villa Borghese_

_*Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese_
_Portrait statue by Canova at Villa Borghese._

_Henri IV. Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici_
_Painted at her order by Rubens._

_View from the Garden of the Villa Medici_

_Colonna Palace, Rome_--_The Grand Salon_

_Garden of the Colonna Palace, Rome_
_With permission of Charles A. Platt._

_Castle of Vittoria Colonna at Ischia_

_The Cascade_
_Villa Conti Torlonia, Frascati._

_The Haunted Pool_
_Villa Conti Torlonia, Frascati._

_Vittoria Colonna_
_From a portrait in the Colonna Gallery._

___Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna_
_From a portrait in later life by Netscher._

_Court of the Massimi Palace_

_Marie Mancini Colonna, Principessa di Palliano_
_By Mignard. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin._

_*By permission of Messrs. Alinari._

_Antinous_
_Bas-relief found at Hadrian's Villa, now in the Villa
Albani._

_Ruins of a Gallery of Statues in Hadrian's Villa_
_From an etching by Piranesi._

*_Villa Pia in Garden of the Vatican_
_Pirro Ligorio, architect._

*_Villa Pia, Vatican_
_The rotondo--Pirro Ligorio, architect._

_Eros Bending the Bow_
_Capitoline Museum._

_Faun of Praxiteles_
_Capitoline Museum._

_Villa Albani_

*_Casino, Villa Albani_

*_Candelabra from Hadrian's Villa_
_Museum of the Vatican._

*_Urania_

_Museum of the Vatican._

_View through the Key-hole of the Gate of the Villa
of the Knights of Malta_

*_By permission of Messrs. Alinari._

ROMANCE OF ROMAN VILLAS

[Illustration]

CHAPTER I