The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy

by Dianne Suzette Harris

Italian villas are generally regarded as beautiful havens where a privileged elite, fleeing the harsh realities of the city, found peace and harmony amid buildings and gardens framed upon classical ideals of proportion, balance, and the natural. In her interdisciplinary book, Dianne Harris presents a radically different view of villa life as it developed during the eighteenth century on the vast estates dominating the fertile Lombard plain. Governed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271022167
• ISBN13: 9780271022161
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 10.2"