Main entry:

Tchikine, Anatole, author.

Title & Author:

Francesco Ignazio Lazzari's Discrizione della villa pliniana : visions of antiquity in the landscape of Umbria / Anatole Tchikine and Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2021]

Description:

xxii, 241 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 x 21 cm.

Series:

Ex horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Prologue: Fitting together the pieces of the Lazzari puzzle / Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey -- Acknowledgments -- Repatriating Pliny : Lazzari and his reconstruction / Anatole Tchikine -- "So that the memory of this villa..." : Lazzari's two antiquities / Anatole Tchikine -- "Tuscos meos" : visions of Pliny's villas by Lazzari, his predecessors, and his contemporaries / Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey -- Epilogue: Local memory and national myth / Anatole Tchikine -- Description of Pliny's villa / Francesco Ignazio Lazzari ; translated with notes from Italian and Latin / by Anatole Tchikine and Taylor Ellis Johnson -- Discrizione della villa pliniana / Francesco Ignazio Lazzari / transcription by Anatole Tchikine and Taylor Ellis Johnson -- Appendix 1: Pliny the Younger, letter to Apollinaris / translated from Latin by Taylor Ellis Johnson -- Appendix 2: Nine Latin inscriptions found in the area of Città di Castello (Appendix to the Città di Castello manuscript) / transcription by Anatole Tchkine -- Appendix 3: Legend of Lazzari's drawing / transcription by Anatole Tchikine -- Appendix 4: Chronology of Lazzari's writings / Anatole Tchikine.
English translation, with original Latin text.
Augmentation of (work): Lazzari, Francesco Ignazio, 1634-1717. Discrizione della villa pliniana. Discrizione del[l]a pianta, e delle alzate, e vedute del[l]a villa pliniana. [1703 or 1704] (OCoLC)437425088

Summary:

"A cultivated patrician, a prolific playwright, and a passionate student of local antiquity, Francesco Ignazio Lazzari (1634-1717) was a mainstay of the artistic and intellectual life of Città di Castello, an Umbrian city that maintained a remarkable degree of cultural autonomy during the early modern period. He was also the first author to identify the correct location of the lost villa "in Tuscis" owned by the Roman writer and statesman Pliny the Younger and known through his celebrated description. Lazzari's reconstruction of this ancient estate, in the form of a large-scale drawing and a textual commentary, adds a unique document to the history of Italian gardens while offering a fascinating perspective on the role of landscape in shaping his native region's identity. Published with an English translation for the first time since its creation, this manuscript is framed by the scholarly contributions of Anatole Tchikine and Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey. At the core of their discussion is the interplay of two distinct ideas of antiquity-one embedded in the regional landscape and garden culture of Umbria and the other conveyed by the international tradition of Plinian architectural reconstructions-that provide the essential context for understanding Lazzari's work"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780884024873 hardcover
0884024873 hardcover

Subject:

Lazzari, Francesco Ignazio, 1634-1717.
Pliny, the Younger Homes and haunts Italy San Giustino.
Pliny, the Younger.
Villa of Pliny the Younger (San Giustino, Italy) Early works to 1800.
Villa of Pliny the Younger (San Giustino, Italy)
Architecture, Domestic Italy San Giustino Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Domestic Italy Città di Castello Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Roman Italy San Giustino Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Roman Italy Città di Castello Early works to 1800.
Gardens Italy San Giustino Early works to 1800.
Gardens Italy Città di Castello Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Roman.
Buildings.
Gardens.
Homes.
San Giustino (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc. Early works to 1800.
Città di Castello (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc. Early works to 1800.
Italy Città di Castello.
Italy San Giustino.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Lazzari, Francesco Ignazio, 1634-1717. Discrizione della villa pliniana.
Lazzari, Francesco Ignazio, 1634-1717. Discrizione della villa pliniana. English.
Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière, author.
Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies.

Discrizione della villa pliniana
Visions of antiquity in the landscape of Umbria

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318528
Call No.: 318528
Copy: 1
Status: Available