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The 19th- and early-20th-century Italian collection here includes Edoardo Rubino's sensual marble nude Il Risveglio (the Awakening) is displayed in the Ligurian-to-the-max Villa Grimaldi Fassio, overlooking the leafy, squirrel-filled Parchi di Nervi.


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