Chapter II: 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)

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._

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 portrait 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