失楽園
[by Fred Lynch in Italy] I’ve been to Renaissance gardens before—and have found them to be overwhelmingly beautiful —amazing man-made paradises. But this year, this one, affected me differently. In the small Central Italian town of Caprarola, everyone looks up at the enormous and elaborate Farnese Palace (Palazzo). No one looks down upon it. The scrappy town’s main street was reconfigured long ago to lead up the steep hill to the Palace’s elevated entrance. It appears that no expense or effort was spared to build this country home for a family that produced powerful Cardinals and Popes in the age of the Renaissance. The word “magnificent” comes to mind when […]