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At last we passed the Casa Ghirlande, a superb chateau belonging to a distinguished nobleman who in former days had been a friendly neighbor to me, and then our vehicle jolted down a gentle declivity which sloped into a small valley, where there was a good-sized piece of smooth flat greensward. From this spot could be faintly discerned the castellated turrets of my own house, the Villa Romani.
Then, suppose we fix upon the plot of open ground just behind the hill to the left of the Casa Ghirlande between that and the Villa Romani it is quiet and secluded, and there will be no fear of interruption." I bowed again. "Thus it stands," continued the marquis, affably "the hour of six the weapons pistols the paces to be decided hereafter when the other seconds arrive."
It was the fashion then for the young maidens of Florence to wear these garlands, or 'ghirlande' as they were called, on their heads, and because this goldsmith made them better than any one else they gave him the name of Ghirlandaio, which means 'maker of garlands, and that became the family name.
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