TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taegio,Bartolomeo
AU  - Beck,Thomas E.
TI  - La Villa
T2  - Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
SN  - 9780812243178
U1  - 712.0945 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Agriculture -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Country homes -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Country life -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Gardens -- Italy -- Design -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Landscape architecture -- Italy -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Garden History
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Fine Art
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on this Edition and Translation --; Introduction --; La Villa --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203806
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203806
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812203806/original
ER  -