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to go by was a rough sort of sketch drawn by
myself with a piece of charcoal on the white
garden-wall, I cannot draw anything, it looked as
if drawn by the hand of a child.
“This is my house,” I explained to them,
“with huge Roman columns supporting its
vaulted rooms and of course small Gothic columns
in all the windows. This is the loggia with its
strong arches, we will decide by and by how many
arches there will be. Here comes a pergola, over
a hundred columns, leading up to the chapel,
never mind the public road running straight
across my pergola now, it will have to go. Here
looking out on Castello Barbarossa comes another
loggia, I do not quite see what it looks like for the
present, I am sure it will spring out of my head
at the right moment. This is a small inner court,
all white marble, a sort of atrium with a cool
fountain in its midst and heads of Roman Emperors
in niches round the walls. Here behind the
house we are going to knock down the
garden-wall and build a cloister something like the
Lateran cloister in Rome. Here comes a large
terrace where all you girls will dance the
tarantella on summer evenings. On the top of the
garden we shall blast away the rock and build a
Greek theatre open on all sides to sun and wind.
This is an avenue of cypresses leading up to the
chapel which we will of course rebuild as a chapel
with cloister stalls and stained glass windows, I
intend to make it my library. This is a
colonnade with twisted Gothic columns surrounding
the chapel and here looking out over the bay of
Naples we are going to hoist an enormous
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