Katie Campbell, Paradise of Exiles: The Anglo-American Gardens of Florence | A baroque jewel, Villa Capponi | www.books.google.com

[1] Geoffrey Jellicoe, Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, (London, 1925 and 1953). Geoffrey Jellicoe was a founder member of the Institute of Landscape Architects, an architect, town planner, landscape architect and writer. He played a pivotal role shaping the Institute into an identifiable and viable organisation. He was visionary and determined in his approach, a man of phenomenal energy, broad interest and charisma, evident in his involvement both with the institute and in his own practice. [See also: Landscape Institute | Geoffrey Jellicoe].
[2] Firenze - Villa Capponi | www.cultura.toscana.it
Edith Wharton, Italian Villas and Their Gardens (London, 1903)
[3] 'Egisto Fabbri was an enthusiastic amateur architect but limited his activities to projects for his family and friends. He restored the facade of the villa at San Martino alla Palma near Scandicci, belonging to his brother-in-law Piero Antinori, designed a chapel for La Farge in Connecticut, and in 1914 went to New York to advise his sister-in-law Edith Shepard on her new house. He rebuilt the church at Serravalle in the Casentino in the romanesque style, and restored his villa at Bagazzano, near Settignano. He had acquired the simple and unadorned fifteenth-century villa following his return from Paris and it became his refuge.
Visitors from abroad | Bagazzano received many visitors from among the growing international community of intellectuals and artists who came to Florence. Lured here by Italian culture, the warm climate and the low cost of living their lives are described in the pages of Henry James. Visitors would stroll over from the neighbouring hills: Bernard Berenson from the Tatti, the Romanian princess Jeanne Ghyka from Villa Gamberaia, Violet Page (the writer who adopted the pseudonym Vernon Lee) from Villa Palmerino. Others would stay at Bagazzano on their leisurely trips to Europe: Bancel and Mabel La Farge, son and daughter-in-law of John La Farge, the painter Maurice Denis, and the French writer and millionaire André Germain.
The Serravalle project, the sale of the Cézannes | From 1923 until his death ten years later Egisto Fabbri devoted his time and resources to the reconstruction of the village of Serravalle in the Casentino destroyed by an earthquake and to establishing a school for Gregorian Chant there. This project, together with the purchase of Palazzo Capponi in Florence for the family, forced him to sell thirteen of the most important Cézannes in his collection. They were bought by the French collector Paul Rosenberg and his partner Georges Wildenstein for seven million francs.