The woodland beyond the Secret Garden, where the author searched for the secret Secret Garden
"…we were to discover the pleasures and frustrations
of furnishing a Renaissance palace. For many months
it was a source of amazement to see the palace yield
up its special beauty as [Guiseppe] found the correct
pieces of cinquecento furniture for each room. He used
extraordinary taste and perseverance in tracking down
the right pieces or having them made to order in the
proper style. It would have been impossible without
Fasoli, a dealer in Rome, who ran all over Italy during the
spring and summer in pursuit of Renaissance furniture.
My beloved chauffeur, Ostinelli, would drive the pieces
out to Caprarola in an old camion—an armoire one
day, a bedstead the next—they rambled across the
drawbridge. Years later, after my husband died and
the furnishings went up for auction, the Robert Woods
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