Foreign tourists admire Pietro Tacca’s bronze cinghiale, Florence (Photo: Cosimo Lipparini)
Foreign tourists gather in the Piazza Signoria, Florence (Photo: Cosimo Lipparini)
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Georgetown University is based in the Villa le Balze, nestled in the hillside of Fiesole. The villa was designed in 1911 by the English duo of Geoffrey Scott and Cecil Pinsent as an ex novo Renaissance home for Charles Augustus Strong, an American philosopher. The villa’s lack of Renaissance pedigree is emblazoned in the vacant coat-of-arms above the entrance, the only clue to the villa’s early 20th-century past. Scott and Pinsent were