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The dining room, adorned with antique furniture and tableware from 18th-century Sweden and 16th-century Lombardy (Villa San Michele)

The built-in kitchen decorated with copper pots (Villa San Michele)

Some utensils, such as a chopping board and a bowl, on the kitchen sink (Villa San Michele)

The old kitchen at Villa San Michele and the copper pots

Some pots hanging from the vaulted ceiling in the dining room (Villa San Michele)

The wooden table for four in the dining room (Villa San Michele)

A leather armchair and a shelf with plates in the dining room (Villa San Michele)

In the centre of the atrium, a Roman well made of white marble (Villa San Michele)

On the right, a marble seat with armrests and legs in the shape of two lions (Villa San Michele)

The small columns of the loggia and, on the right, the statue of a seer (Villa San Michele)

Some Roman-era fragments set into the wall (Villa San Michele)

Bronze statue of a woman situated in a small loggia, depicting a seer from Herculaneum (Villa San Michele)

The desk in the bedroom (Villa San Michele)

The fireplace with a leather armchair beside it, in the bedroom (Villa San Michele)

On the left, a walnut sofa dating from the 1700s (Villa San Michele)

Axel Munthe’s small desk in the bedroom (Villa San Michele)

A close-up of Axel Munthe’s desk and books in his bedroom (Villa San Michele)

A black-and-white portrait of Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe, doctor and writer (Villa San Michele)

The book entitled *The Story of San Michele*, which Axel Munthe published in 1929, recounting his life and his work (Villa San Michele)

A general view of Axel Munthe’s study, with his desk on the right (Villa San Michele)

A black-and-white photograph showing Axel Munthe sitting next to his dogs (Villa San Michele)

A black-and-white photograph showing Axel Munthe’s dogs (Villa San Michele)

Axel Munthe’s study desk, with the head of Medusa hanging above it (Villa San Michele)

An English dictionary on a lectern, placed on the desk in Axel Munthe’s study (Villa San Michele)

A marble sculpture depicting the face of Medusa, from the Temple of Venus in Rome (Villa San Michele)

A statue hanging on the wall of Axel Munthe’s study, depicting a woman (Villa San Michele)

Axel Munthe’s study, with the sculpture depicting the face of Medusa in the background (Villa San Michele)

The Venetian drawing room; on the left, hanging on the wall, is an 18th-century mirror in gilded wood (Villa San Michele)

The Venetian-style chairs in the drawing room of Villa San Michele)

The gallery of sculptures supported by marble columns (Villa San Michele)

Bronze bust depicting a man’s face (Villa San Michele)

A table covered with antique tiles and supported by a white marble Corinthian capital (Villa San Michele)

The bronze bust of Dionysus (or Bacchus) in the sculpture gallery at Villa San Michele

The Cosmatesque table supported by five small columns (Villa San Michele)

The bronze statue depicting Hermes (Mercury) at Villa San Michele

The marble slab from the Cosmatesque table that Axel Munthe bought in the Palermo area (Villa San Michele)

Bronze figure of Mercury with the pergola in the background (Villa San Michele)

A corner of the garden at Villa San Michele

A Roman-era sculpture set into a wall at Villa San Michele

The bronze fountain in the centre of the garden, depicting a winged child holding a dolphin (Villa San Michele)

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