La villa / Bartolomeo Taegio ; edited and translated by Thomas E. Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taegio, Bartolomeo, active 1550, author.

Contributor:

Beck, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), editor, translator.

Series:

Penn studies in landscape architecture.

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Standardized Title:

Villa. English & Italian

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architecture--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Landscape architecture.

Agriculture--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Country life--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Country life.

Gardens--Italy--Design--Early works to 1800.

Gardens.

Country homes--Italy--Early works to 1800.

Country homes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published in 1559 and appearing here for the first time in English, La Villa is a rare source of Renaissance landscape theory. Written by Bartolomeo Taegio, a Milanese jurist and man of letters, after his banishment (possibly for murder, Thomas E. Beck speculates), the text takes the form of a dialogue between two gentlemen, one a proponent of the country, the other of the city. While it is not a gardening treatise, La Villa reflects an aesthetic appreciation of the land in the Renaissance, reveals the symbolic and metaphorical significance of sixteenth-century gardens for their owners, and articulates a specific philosophy about the interaction of nature and culture in the garden. This edition of the original Italian text and Beck's English translation is augmented with notes in which Beck identifies numerous references to literary sources in La Villa and more than 280 people and places mentioned in the dialogue. The introduction illuminates Taegio's life and intellectual activity, his obligations to his sources, the cultural context, and the place of La Villa in Renaissance villa literature. It also demonstrates the enduring relevance of La Villa for architecture and landscape architecture. La Villa makes a valuable contribution to the body of literature about place-making, precisely because it treats the villa as an idea and not as a building type.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Note on this Edition and Translation

Introduction

La Villa

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-294) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Taegio, Bartolomeo, active 1550. Villa. Italian.

Taegio, Bartolomeo, active 1550. Villa. English.

ISBN:

9781283896399

1283896397

9780812203806

0812203801

OCLC:

794700691