Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... Dalla Ragione knew, had old gardens and orchards that had escaped the farm ...

Spend the day wandering through the garden's elegant ... former residence of Italian nobility, but it also serves as a museum dedicated to the collection of more than 130 paintings by Old Masters ...

including Opera in the Italian Garden, a yearly event that brings in more than 2,500 people to watch ballet and opera in the garden. Both art forms originated in Italy. Mariani says events like th ...