The finale of this six-part collection ends with an automaton destroying the titular edifice and killing his creator Bannadona.  
The first sketch features the nameless narrator climbing a mountain in search of fairies.  Instead, he finds a cottage with a young girl named Mariana in it, who, as it turns out, was admiring the narrator's house at the title location.  The finale of this six-part collection ends with an automaton destroying the titular edifice and killing his creator Bannadona.  Another tale collects 10 episodes set on the Galapagos Islands, while another is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street" and contains the utterance "I would prefer not to."  FTP, identify this series of short stories by Melville which contains "The Bell Tower" and "Bartleby the Scrivener," and is collectively named for an Italian square.
The first sketch features the nameless narrator climbing a mountain in search of fairies.  
The Piazza Tales