fattoria

Updated: May 14, 2025

Villa Falconieri, Frascati abandoned, overgrown the wonderful outline of huge Mondragone, with its pines against the mountains. So different from the Tuscan villa, even the grandest, say Mte. Gufoni, which is only the extended fattoria, its place chosen by the accident of agricultural business.

Vernon Lee - The Spirit of Rome

Here and there were patches of arable land and groups of tilling peasants in the wide untidy expanse; once or twice too an osteria, with its bush or its wine-stained tables under the shadow of its northern wall. But scarcely a farmhouse. Once indeed a great building like a factory or a workhouse, in the midst of wide sun-beaten fields. 'Ecco! la fattoria, said the driver, pointing to it.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Eleanor

And again, on a never-to-be-forgotten evening on the Nemi lake, when, on descending from Genzano to the strawberry-farm that now holds the site of the famous temple of Diana Nemorensis, we found a beautiful youth at the fattoria, who for a few pence undertook to show us the fragments that remain. Mr. James asked his name.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2