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The Gulf of Naples was a particular locus of the development of Roman villas from roughly 50 BCE to 200 CE, where they were built as retreats and status symbols by senators and the like. [4] Of the many villas of this era discovered in Boscoreale , Naples, buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that also buried Pompeii , one now visible is ...
In foreign affairs, Tanucci kept Naples out of wars and entanglements, though in 1742 an English fleet off the coast helped ensure Neapolitan neutrality in the war between Spain and Austria. Following the discovery of the Herculaneum papyri in 1752, per the advice from Bernardo, King Charles VII of Naples established a commission to study them. [2]
The Villa of Pliny in Tuscis was a large, elaborate ancient Roman villa-estate that belonged to the Plinys (Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger). [1] It is located at Colle Plinio near San Giustino, Umbria, Italy. [2] [3] He named it his villa in Tuscis (in Tuscany) and often mentioned it in letters to his uncle and others. [4]
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After the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici in 1737, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Medici's assets, including their villas, were acquired by Francis, Duke of Lorraine (later Holy Roman Emperor). Francis only visited Tuscany once in 1739 and for the next twenty six years the villas were neglected.
Villa Cimbrone, Ravello: Gardens visited by Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, T. S. Eliot, and most famously, Greta Garbo. Now a hotel website: 3. Italy: La Mortella, Ischia: a spectacular subtropical and Mediterranean garden developed since 1956 by the late Susana Walton Website: 3. Italy: an example of "urban farming" in Naples: 3. Italy
The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1822. It was mostly demolished in 1822. Its remains are now part of the Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence , reached from the main road to Bologna .
The Villa del Trebbio, in a lunette by Giusto Utens, held in the villa Medicea della Petraia. The villa is located near San Piero a Sieve in the Mugello region, in the province of Florence, in the area from which the Medici family originated. It was one of the first - if not the first - of the Medici villas built outside Florence. [1]