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Italian Villas and Their Gardens

Just in time for late spring and summer romps around Italy comes the reissue of Edith Wharton's 1904 landscaping classic Italian Villas and Their Gardens. According to curators with the New York Society Library's Green Art collection, "Wharton visited some fifty villas around Rome, ...

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From Mafia Villa to Agriturismo

This one comes from the U.K.'s Italy Magazine, which tells us that the Corleone villa of former Mafia boss Salvatore Riina has been turned into farmstay housing, a.k.a., an agriturismo. The Pio La Torre Cooperative, named for a martyred anti-Mafia activist, belonged to Riina before it was seized by ...

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