villa-covered

Updated: June 10, 2025

As Lucy and Aunt Pattie stood together beside the little parapet looking out through the sprays of banksia rose that were already making a white canopy above the restaurant tables, they had before them the steep sides and Imperial ruins of the Palatine; the wonderful group of churches on the Coelian; the low villa-covered ridges to the right melting into the Campagna; and far away, the blue, Sabine mountains 'suffused with sunny air' that look down with equal kindness on the refuge of Horace, and the oratory of St.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Eleanor