The Pleasure House, the
sometime, together with the
Palace, summer residence of
the Presidents of Italy
Monument is exactly 555 feet high! Also, that in the
Neoplatonic concept of the Great Chain of Being, there
are five main subdivisions, with God at the top.) In the
most ancient Cabalistic symbolism, the number five
signifies five stages or phases of the tree of life, and the
geometric five-sided figure represents a house, its walls
defined by the square, its roof denoted by a triangle
atop it.
Is Villa Farnese a house for angels? It is certainly a built
world evoking heaven on earth. The villa's very shape
and form mark the place as heavenly wrought and as
beacon for celestial travelers. Aerial photographs of the
palace present a complex worthy of a rocket ship silo.
I could not help but contemplate that in the last year or
two that Julia and Guiseppe lived at Caprarola, as he
declined with acute emphysema, Caprarola might have
become overpowering, even oppressive, such is the
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