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Bachelor life varies with you switching settings. Hello and welcome to Outward, Slate's podcast about queer life, queer politics, and the little gay nuggets of history you didn't even know to ask about.

I'm Christina Cotarucci, a senior writer at Slate, and this week, I'm taking you back in time to an

Italian villa just outside Florence. The villa Gambariah was built in the early 1600s, and after a few hundred years, by the turn of the 20th century, it was basically in a state of neglect until two lesbians came along and renovated it.

A Romanian princess, Catherine Gica, bought the villa in 1896 and moved in with her lover, an American artist named Florence Blood.

And together, they built a spectacular garden on the grounds and turned it into a destination where they hosted parties and salons for women who lived in the area or would travel to be there.

Today, the gardens of Gambariah provide a little snapshot of a queer community from a century ago that most people don't know much about.

And according to Kate Thomas, a professor of English literature and queer studies at Brinmore College. In the design of those gardens,

there's queer symbolism and meaning and openings for questions about lesbian life. Kate has gone

really deep in her study of this estate. She gave a brilliant lecture at Harvard about the Villa Gambariah a

couple years ago. It was called Lesbian Arcadia,

Desire and Design in the Fonda Cieckla Garden. And I'm so pleased to have her as a guest this

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