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Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling 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.
Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author:
- offers analyses the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa.
- explores the area between Florence and Sesto in its history, morphology and representation
- looks at the villas existing in the area.
A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
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Grazia Gobbi Sica
THE FLORENTINE VILLA Architecture History Society
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Translated from the Italian by Ursula Creigh
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CONTENTS
Preface
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PART ONE Chapter 1 Origins and Development of the Villa Chapter 2 The Ideology of Villa Life in Florentine Culture and Society Chapter 3 Typological Research and Renaissance Treatises Chapter 4 The Garden: Origin and Development Chapter 5 Villas in the Nineteenth Century
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PART TWO Chapter 6 The Shape of the Landscape Chapter 7 The History of the Area Chapter 8 Mapping the Area
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PART THREE Villas in the Castello-Sesto Fiorentino Area
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Appendix Six villas to visit
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Bibliography
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Index of names and places
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business English language edition: 2007 © 2007 Grazia Gobbi Sica Original Italian edition published 1998 by Alinea Editrice La villa fiorentina: Elementi storici e critici per una lettura Translated from the Italian by Ursula Creigh All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gobbi, Grazia. [Villa Florentina. English] The Florentine villa: architecture, history, society/Grazia Gobbi Sica. p. cm. – (Classical tradition in architecture) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Country homes – Italy – Florence (Province). 2. Architecture and society – Italy – Florence (Province). I. Title. NA7565.G613 2007 728.80945 51 – dc22 2007010940 ISBN 0-203-93925-5 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0–415–44397–0 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–93925–