226:.. a broad and proportionately long portico, consisting of several rooms, particularly a court of antique fashion. In front of the portico is a sort of terrace, edged with box and shrubs cut into different shapes. You descend, from the terrace, by an easy slope adorned with the figures of animals in box, facing each other, to a lawn overspread with the soft, I had almost said the liquid, Acanthus: this is surrounded by a walk enclosed with evergreens, shaped into a variety of forms. Beyond it is the gestatio, laid out in the form of a circus running round the multiform box-hedge and the dwarf-trees, which are cut quite close. The whole is fenced in with a wall completely covered by box cut into steps all the way up to the top. On the outside of the wall lies a meadow that owes as many beauties to nature as all I have been describing within does to art; at the end of which are open plain and numerous other meadows and copses. From the extremity of the portico a large dining-room runs out, opening upon one end of the terrace, while from the windows there is a very extensive view over the meadows up into the country, and from these you also see the terrace and the projecting wing of the house together with the woods enclosing the adjacent hippodrome.
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The Museo
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During this phase (late 1st or early 2nd century AD), the villa was greatly extended with the help of the architect
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Chreste, clearly with Pliny as patron. Pliny the
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in 14-15 AD. He was accused of treason and extortion, was acquitted of the former charge, but convicted of the second and fined and his property confiscated. Tiles stamped “CAESAR” and dated 15 AD probably indicate this confiscation.
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Central Italy: Reassessing the Evidence, A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World, J. Aubert et al. Leipzig 2005,
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were added in the northern corner of the villa. In addition the farm was provided with a vat for grape juice next to the winery and probably with storerooms and stables.
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at its corners and a small temple in the centre. Behind the portico a large square was created which was flanked to the east by a pair of two-storey farm buildings.
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BRACONI Paolo, « Les premiers propriétaires De la villa de Pline le Jeune in Tuscis », Histoire & Sociétés
Rurales, 2003/1 (Vol. 19), p. 37-50.
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