villegiatura

Although no detailed description of this "villegiatura" survives,

Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

It was at Ariccia, in one of these periods of villegiatura, during the summer and autumn of 1865, that Brand, which had long been under considerature, suddenly took final shape, and was written throughout, without pause or hesitation.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

It was at Ariccia, in one of these periods of villegiatura, during the summer and autumn of 1865, that Brand, which had long been under considerature, suddenly took final shape, and was written throughout, without pause or hesitation.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Loutherbourg had been hired to transform Beckford's mansion into "a labyrinthine and necromantic environment for a three-day Christmas performance-masquerade" (Ziter 19), a transformation that was so effective and dramatic that Beckford himself described the event as "the realization of romance in all its fervours, in all its extravagance … I wrote Vathek immediately upon my return to London at the close of this romantic villegiatura" (qtd Altick 122n).

Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

The mountain of Viterbo is covered with beautiful plantations and villas belonging to the Roman nobility, who come hither to make the villegiatura in summer.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

These examinations, or rather, my necessity to work and prepare for them, coupled with the presence of a fine public library at X----, gave me the pretext I needed to stay behind during the family villegiatura.

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

She is making the _villegiatura_ among these mountain towns for a frolic.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

We found by correspondence two kind little ladies living in Rome, who agreed to make all the preparations for us, find servants, and provide against a possibly cold spring to be spent in rooms meant only for villegiatura in the summer.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

I remember once, many years after, following the parroco of Castel Gandolfo, through the dreary and deserted rooms of the Papal villa, where, before 1870, the Popes used to make villegiatura, on that beautiful ridge overlooking the Alban lake.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

Each college spends the summer vacation at its villegiatura or country house located outside the city and generally in or near one of the numerous towns on the slopes of the neighbouring hills.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913