I Villeggiatura: Profane and Papal

Coffin, David R.

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I Villeggiatura: Profane and Papal

David R. Coffin

The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome

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David R. Coffin

PublisherPrinceton University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00163.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18526

I Villeggiatura: Profane and Papal

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BOOKThe Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome

David R. Coffin

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00163

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18520

Tracing the history of the Roman villa during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, David Coffin presents the first comprehensive study of the subject of villeggiatura (withdrawal to a country residence) in English. Further, his book is the first in any language to analyze the villa in terms of its social function and meaning rather than its architecture and formal properties. Coffin draws on a wide variety of printed material and previously unused sources to explore twenty of the most important residences built by dignitaries of Church and State. Early plans and drawings and photographs aid him in reconstructing the leisure activity of the leaders of Renaissance society in the settings that were built to enhance it.

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David R. Coffin

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Print publication date January 1979 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780691002798

EISBN 9780300249705

Illustrations 246

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