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120 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
pupil of Vasari and Daniele da Volterra, was erected behind
the bastion of Nicholas V. for the use of the Swiss Guard
at the Vatican. 1
At the ViUa Pia Pius V. only completed what was strictly
necessary. In a very different spirit from the rather pompous
way in which Pius IV. called attention to his own work, Pius V.
very modestly marked the part which was due to him with
a smaU tablet bearing the letters P.V.^ He ordered his
physicians to grow pahns and exotic shrubs in the garden
of the Villa, which rather interfered with the character of
the building.3 During the summer of 1569 Pius V. often
dined at the Villa ;* he only resided at the Palace of S. Marco
during the first summer of his pontificate.^ Later on his only
recreation consisted in walks to his beloved convent of S.
Sabina on the Aventine,^ and to the modest little villa which
^ Cf. Chattard, III., 334, Armellini, 463, Lanciani, IV., 9.
The arms of Pius V. on the exterior are still preserved, but the
inscription mentioned by Forcella (VI., 79) is destroyed. The
frescoes over the altar represent God the Father, in the right hand
niche is St. Sebastian, and in the left one St. Martin. The altarpiece
is an Annunciation of the Madonna. On the right hand
wall near the altar recess Christ is depicted on the cross with
Peter and John, and on the left is the Madonna with St. Anne and
the Bambino.
^ See Friedlander, 88, who has not made use of the *Avviso
: *Pius V. brought a water supply from
di Roma of June 10, 1570
the Vatican to the casino of Pius IV., which had been commenced
by his predecessor. State Archives, Vienna.
' Cf. A. GoTHEiN, Gartenkunst, L, 278.
* See *Avviso di Roma of July 6, 1569, Urb. 1041, p. 106,
Vatican Library.
* Dengel, Palazzo di Venezia, 106 seq.
* According to a *report of Arco of June 21, 1567 (State Archives,
Vienna) the Pope visited the humble cell, which commands a
splendid view, and contains memorials of himself, and adds that
he had once lived there as a monk. The name of Pius V. occurs
several times in inscriptions in the convent ; see Forcella,
VII., 305.