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Identifier: italiancastlesco00batcrich (find matches)
Title: Italian castles and country seats
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Batcheller, Tryphosa Bates, 1878-
Subjects: Castles -- Italy Historic buildings -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the three families, Hercolani, Malvezzi, and Aldrovandi, as having been, in 1483-5-8, Podestas of the city. It seems a rather interesting and striking instance of long family connection and friendship, and I was fortunate in being able to get a photograph showing these three coats-of-arms, which I am sending back to Bologna to Countess Aldrovandi. This afternoon we are going to have tea with the Countess Bracceschi, and there are many things about Perugia that recall her ancestor, that shrewd and courageous condottiere, Braccio of Montone, called Forte-braccio (the strong arm). The family of the Countess has for many years owned much of the land in and about Perugia, and the particular villa that the Countess is refitting for her own use is situated in the valley below the hill of Perugia, not far from the village of Castel del Piano. The villa is rather smaller than many that have belonged to the Bracceschi estates, but the Countess has given the more elaborate and larger country houses (326)
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M bo o < -^ J CO AND COUNTRY SEATS of the family to her daughters as they have married. One of them married a relative of the Princess Giovanelli, one of the Serego Alighieri; another daughter, that I wrote you about from Noventa, is Countess Papafava.Few women of Countess Bracceschis age, I think,would have been so generous or have felt equal to therefitting, furnishing, and general repairing of one ofthese old seventeenth century villas in the country, for of course all the plumbing materials and all the necessaries, which the Italians express with our English term modern comfort, must be brought from the nearest large centre, which is Rome; but although the Countess is past sixty, with white hair, her figure is lithe, her eyes are still bright, and she reminds me of you in her boundless energy, constant activity, and youthful enthusiasms. Perhaps the famous condottiere in his fortitude and strength was not unlike your Highland-Scotch Duncan soldiers. Like nearly all people born to a high

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