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Villa1 Quarto(Florence, January, 1904)
This villa is situated2 three or four miles from Florence, and has several names. Some call it the Villa Reale di Quarto, some call it the Villa Principessa, some call it the Villa Granduchessa; this multiplicity of names was an inconvenience to me for the first two or three weeks, for as I had heard the place called by only one name, when letters came for the servants directed to the care of one or the other of the other names, I supposed a mistake had been made and remailed them. It has been explained to me that there is reason for these several names. Its name Quarto it gets from the district which it is in, it being in the four-mile radius3 from the center of Florence. It is called Reale because the King of Würtemberg occupied it at one time; Principessa and Granduchessa because a Russian daughter of the Imperial house occupied it at another. There is a history of the house somewhere, and some time or other I shall get it and see if there are any details in it which could be of use in this chapter. I should like to see that book, for as an evolutionist I should like to know the beginning of this dwelling4 and the several stages of its evolution. Baedeker says it was built by Cosimo I, assisted by an architect. I have learned this within the past three minutes, and it wrecks5 my development scheme. I was surmising6 that the house began in a small and humble7 way, and was the production of a poor farmer whose idea of home and comfort it was; that following him a generation or two later came a successor of better rank and larger means who built an addition; that successor after successor added more bricks and more bulk as time dragged on, each in his turn leaving a detail behind him of paint or wallpaper to distinguish his reign8 from the others; that finally in the last century came the three that precede me, and added their
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asylum
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obsolete
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meretricious
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bowling
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humane
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labyrinth
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dictating
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mansion
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fortress
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masonry
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villas
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| 百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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variegated
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tumult
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receding
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incongruities
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destitution
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memento
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frescoed
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| 壁画( fresco的名词复数 ); 温壁画技法,湿壁画 | |
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relic
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porcelain
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pagoda
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scattered
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frenzy
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embroidery
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walnut
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glorified
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relics
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manly
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Christian
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dignified
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indigent
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slants
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drenched
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monarchs
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spaciousness
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