"The banker Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy [de], who was then considered the richest citizen of Berlin, ..." had created facts in the long-standing dispute over the founding of the academy by buying the Villa Falconieri in Frascati and donating the house to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Richard Voß had made an impact there with his go-getting manner. "In October the news went through the German newspapers." (Windholz 1., p. 38) For the history of the Villa Massimo most exhaustively: 1. Angela Windholz: Villa Massimo. Zur Gründungsgeschichte der Deutschen Akademie in Rom und ihrer Bauten. Petersberg 2003. 2. Angela Windholz: Zur Geschichte der Villa Massimo – 1800–2010. In 100 Jahre Deutsche Akademie Rom 1910–2010 Villa Massimo. Wienand, Cologne 2010.
