III. Matching:      In the 1970s, there was not the rash of ugly buildings around Tivoli that there is now. Theruins of Hadrian’s Villa, twice the size of __14__ of Pompeii, lay off the road,unannounced, on small tufa rises of orange soil, amid ancient olives, cypresses, andsculpted pine trees, with water trickling from pools and fountains. It rained intermittently. Itook shelter under the half-collapsed domes and __15__, and in underground chambers. Iread later that in 1803, Chateaubriand had visited the villa and had also been caught in therain, taking refuge in the same places. “The fragments of masonry were garnished with theleaves of scolopendra,” he wrote in his description of his journey, “the satin verdure of__16__ appeared like mosaic work upon the white marble.”      The __17__ stones inset in the mortar of the walls, thick with wet moss, had blendedtogether into one west and beautiful __18__, in the way that generations and theirparticular dramas blend with past and future ones, leaving patterns only: like differentvarieties of earth. The floors with their rich and muddy carpet of tesserae were a lesson ingeology. The fragments of slate and marble parquetry offered colors subtler __19__. Iremember a lone pillar so dark that it was like a diseased and veiny elephant trunk.     Shattered domes revealed clouds of moving overhead in countless visions of eternity. Itwas a place made for silence and for contemplation, __20__ you wanted a book handy.Every corner was a cloister. No view was panoramic: each seemed deliberately __21__.  For Hadrian, writes Eleanor Clark in a 1950 book, Rome and a Villa, the availability of waterwas more important than a dominant view.                   Hadrian’s Villa was the Versailles of the ancient world. In the remnants of apsidal niches,vestibules, colonnades, and pools, one can detect signs of an arranged __22__ absent inthe Roman Forum, a mere warehouse of ruins in comparison to Tivoli. And while so much ofMaximian’s villa in Casale spoke of vulgarity, here everything appeared more refined.Scholars compare the villa with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello because the scenery in eachplace has been so deliberately managed. The villas was Hadrian’s personal __23__ to thesame extent that Monticello was Jefferson’s.  (AB) where (AC) vaulting (AD) yet (AE) project (BC) composed (BD) those (BE) grandeur (CD) reticulated (CE) accretion (BC) which

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