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D'Este. Per permission to enter the latter, make application at the college at Tivoli. One of the professors at the college has charge of the Villa. Its garden is the most beautiful in all Italy. From Rome visit Frascatti and Papa Rocca. While at the Vatican ask to be shown the Bergia rooms. The decorations therein will delight you. 

From Rome go to Florence where you will find many excellent hotels and an extremely clean and attractive city. Visit Santa Croce The bargello and of course the two great galleries. At the Academy you will find a great painting entitled "Prima Vera" by Botticelli and in the other galleries you will be brought in contact with remarkable specimans of the work of the great Italian masters. Should you care to purchase any antiquities while in Florence go to the place owned by Barberini. His shop is in an old palace and anybody can tell you its location. While at his shop ask for consent to visit the new [[crossed out]] building [[\crossed out]] villa he is building some six miles out from Florence,where you will find in course of restoration an old mediaeval palace and several splendid specimens of old Roman Columns, Fountains, etc. The view from the top of the villa is delightful. Make a side trip to Peosile. Take the tram cars. The carriage trip is expensive and really not as pleasant as the tram cars .

The trip from Florence to Venice is a delightful one and should be made by daylight. Should you care to,change cars at Bologna and to to Ravenna for a couple of days with its Bizantine architecture and Dante's Pineto. On your return from Venice, visit Padua and see the great Donatello bronzes. Spend a couple of days at Verona, a city rich in historical and architectural matters. A week can be spent delightfully at Milan and another at Genoa. There are five or six good hotels in Venice. I prefer the Danielli and at Milan the Hotel Cavour. You will find very good wine at Ravello; at Brae the old Falernian is excellent; at Capri the native Caprian wine is best and Florence the