It was enlarged later by Eleonora Gonzaga, the wife of Francesco Maria della Rovere, the heir of Urbino, and Giovanni Sforza's successor in the dominion of Pesaro.

Famous painters decorated it with allegoric and historical pictures; Bembo and Bernardo Tasso sang of it in melodious numbers, and there, in the presence of the Della Rovere court, Torquato read his pastoral _Aminta_.

This villa is now in a deplorable state of decay.

Pesaro offered but little in the way of entertainment for a young woman accustomed to the society of Rome.

The city had no nobility of importance.