
Villa Arconati
‘In this work of very rare judgement, nature and art competed with his gifts to make it unique to Insubria, and famous beyond the borders of Italy: sculpture and painting reign here, and statues and Colossi were brought from very distant parts, with a thousand relics of Roman greatness, they evoke no envy for the luxuries of that same Empire. I omit the inventiveness of the fountains, the walled forests, the domestic beasts, the peregrines, and all that is marvellous elsewhere, collected here almost as if in a theatre …’