Mozzi, Cavaliere, Medici Villa at Fiesole left by Lady Orford to, 87.
N
Napoleon I, 59, 142.
Nicholas II, Pope, 37.
O
Ombrellino, Villa dell’, Galileo Galilei lives at, 62.
Orford, Countess of, buys Medicean Villa at Fiesole, 86, 87.
Orleans, Marguerite Louise of, life of described by Martinelli, 14.
P
Paget, Lady, restoration of Villa di Bellosguardo by, 61.
Palagi, G., quoted, 52.
PALMIERI, VILLA, 1–7.
—— old names of, 1;
bought by Matteo Palmieri, 1;
transformed by Palmiero Palmieri, 1;
bought by Earl of Crawford, 1;
inhabited by Earl Cowper, 4;
bought by Miss Farhill, 5;
left to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, 6;
lent by Countess of Crawford to H. M. Queen Victoria, 6;
identified with the second villa described in the _Decameron_, 6;
described by Baldelli, 6;
described by Boccaccio, 6; 98.
Pasolini, Count Giuseppe, buys Font’ all’ Erta, 113;
joins the “Young Italy” party, 114;
political life of, 115;
death of, 115.
—— Count Pier Desiderio, quoted, 68.
Passerini, Count Silvio, present owner of Artimino, 151.
Pazzi, Jacopo de’, 83, 84.
—— Francesco de’, 83;
hung out of the window of Palazzo della Signoria, 84.
Peter Igneus, St., goes through ordeal by fire at Badia a Settimo,
128.
PETRAJA, VILLA della, 53–58.
—— tree of Victor Emanuel at, 53;
fountain at, described by Vasari, 54;
defence by the Brunelleschi of, described by S. Ammirato, 54;
owned by the Strozzi, 55;
Cosimo I, lives at, 56;
favourite villa of Ferdinando de’ Medici, 57;
Scipione Ammirato lives at, 57;
Victor Emanuel at, 58.
Petrucci, Cesare, Gonfalonier of Florence, orders the Archbishop of
Pisa and others to be hung, 84.
Pietro Leopoldo I, 46, 54, 70, 151.
Pitti, Luca, builds Rusciano, 37;
wise words of Cosimo de’ Medici to, 38;
character of, 39.
Pius II, Pope, 56.
—— V, Pope, 41.
—— IX, Pope, 79, 114.
Poccetti, Bernardino, ceiling by, at Careggi, 27.
POGGIO A CAJANO, VILLA di, 8–15.
—— built by Lorenzo de’ Medici, 8;
frescoes in, 8–9;
gardens of, 9;
mentioned by B. Varchi, 10;
Cosimo I, and his bride at, 11;
Francesco de’ Medici and Joan of Austria at, 11;
Cardinal de’ Medici at, 11;
death of Francesco I, and of Bianca Cappello at, 12–13;
Christine of Lorraine received at, 13;
Marguerite Louise of Orleans retires to, 14; 152.
POGGIO GHERARDO, VILLA di, 131–138.
—— owned by the Magaldi, 131;
various owners of, 132;
description of, 132–133;
mentioned by S. Rogers, 134;
identified with first villa mentioned in the Decameron, 134;
description of, by Boccaccio, 136.
POGGIO IMPERIALE, VILLA di, 41–47.
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