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Henry James is not all about palazzi and drawing rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

After seeing the many truly luxurious palazzi and villas that serve as homes for high-ranking church officials, this Mount Baker abode really does appear extremely modest in comparison.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2022

Gone are the cobblestone roads, the antiquities, the worn palazzi dappled like watercolors.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

Some cardinals have spacious, well-appointed apartments in historic palazzi in Rome.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2021

See his Castello di Ferrara, Turin, 1873, and the description of the castle in the Notizie storico-artistiche sui primarii palazzi d'Italia, Firenze, Cennini, 1871.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand