The house is linked to its lawn by two sets of curved steps, designed by a pattern that could have been taken from Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere in Rome. |
The precious fragments were taken first to his villa, but soon given to the Roman people and transferred to the cortile of the Palazzo dei Conservatori. |
The idea came from the Marchese's involvement in commissioning Arnaldo Pomodoro's monumental Sphere Within Sphere for the Cortile della Pigna in the Vatican. |
The storied restaurant, Il Cortile, is owned and run by the Esposito family, which also owns the properties, on the corner of Mulberry and Hester streets. |
The significance of this unusually shaped cortile, heretofore not fully understood, is the topic of this article. |
In the center of the tents, where ground has been set aside in the snow for a cortile, those not on duty huddle round with our letters from Italy. |