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Excerpt from Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 1932, Vol. 10 Plate 1, Figure 3, showing this unusual structure in its restored state, with the vegetation once more rambling over it, speaks more convincingly than words or designs for the soundness of the restoration. It is however with regard to the function which the structure was intended to fulfill that opinions have varied. The restorer proceeded on the assumption that he was dealing with a particular type of garden-house, designed to afford a cool and shady Open-air refuge to the owner and his friends, who were to be imagined as seating themselves on a wooden or stone bench supported on G and H. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.