Main entry:

Gobbi, Grazia.

Title & Author:

The Florentine villa : architecture, history, society / Grazia Gobbi Sica ; [translated from the Italian by Ursula Creigh].

Edition:

English language ed.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

[The classical tradition in architecture]

Notes:
Series statement from jacket.
Includes one fold-out map.
"Original Italian edition published 1998 by Alinea Editrice, La villa fiorentina: elementi storici e critici per una lettura"--Title page verso.
"Original Italian edition published 1998 by Alinea Editrice, La villa fiorentina: elementi storici e critici per una lettura"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index.
Origins and development of the villa -- Ideology of villa life in florentine culture and society -- Typological research and renaissance treatises -- Garden: origin and development -- Villas in the nineteenth century -- Shape of the landscape -- History of the area -- Mapping the area -- Villas in the Castello-Sesto Fiorentino area -- Six villas to visit.
In English, translated from Italian.

Summary:

"This book provides a record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. It offers not only an analysis of the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, but also analyses the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780415443975 (hc ; alk. paper)
0415443970
9780203939253 (ebook)
0203939255 (ebook)

Subject:

Country homes Italy Florence (Province)
Architecture and society Italy Florence (Province)
Architecture and society.
Country homes.
Villa's.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Italy Florence (Province)
Florence.
Sesto Fiorentino.

Added entries:

Classical tradition in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255238
Call No.: BIB 185342
Status: Available