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SECONDARY SOURCES<\/h1><\/div>

This bibliography of secondary sources seeks to provide students and teachers with a basic list of the most recent and useful secondary sources on the villa as a landscape type as well as the individual featured sites. It is by no means comprehensive and should be viewed as a starting point for further research.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>General Secondary Sources<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\n

Ackerman, James S. The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses.<\/em> Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

Acton, Harold. The Villas of Tuscany<\/em>. 1973. Reprint, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987.<\/p>\n

Alberti, Leon Battista. De Re Aedificatoria<\/em>. Translated by Joseph Rywert with Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Barsali, Isa Belli. Ville Di Roma<\/em>, 2nd ed. Milan: Rusconi, 1983.<\/p>\n

Barsali, Isa Belli and Maria Grazia Branchetti. Ville Della Campagna Romana<\/em>. Milan: Rusconi, 1981.<\/p>\n

Benes, Mirka and Diane Harris. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France.<\/em> New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n

Caro Stefano de. \u2018The Sculptures of the Villa of Poppaea at Oplontis: A Preliminary Report,\u2019 Ancient Roman Villa Gardens<\/em>. Washington DC.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987.<\/p>\n

Chatfield, Judith. A Tour of Italian Gardens<\/em>. New York: Rizzoli, 1988.<\/p>\n

Coffin, David R. Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n

Coffin, David R. The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Coffin, David R., ed. The Italian Garden<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1972.<\/p>\n

Colonna, Francesco. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream<\/em>. Trans. Joscelyn Godwin. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999.<\/p>\n

Dennis, Michael. Court & Garden: From the French H\u00f4tel to the City of Modern Architecture<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

Clarke, Ethne. The Gardens of Tuscany<\/em>. New York : Rizzoli, 1990.<\/p>\n

Eustis, Elizabeth. European Pleasure Gardens: Rare Books and Prints of Historic Landscape Design from the Elizabeth K. Reilley Collection<\/em>. New York: The New York Botanical Garden, 2003.<\/p>\n

Goode, Patrick and Michael Lancaster, eds. The Oxford Companion to Gardens<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

Hunt, John Dixon, ed. The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Jashemski, Wilhelmina. \u201cRecently Excavated Gardens and Cultivated Land of the Villas at Boscoreale and Oplontis,\u201d in Ancient Roman Villa Gardens<\/em>, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987.<\/p>\n

Lazzaro, Claudia. The Italian Renaissance Garden<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

MacDougall, Elizabeth B., ed. Fons Sapientiae: Renaissance Garden Fountains<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1978.<\/p>\n

Masson, Georgina. Italian Gardens<\/em>. 1961. Rev. ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors\u2019 Club, 1987.<\/p>\n

Piccione, Massimo, ed. Gardens of Tuscany<\/em>. Florence: Edifir, 2001.<\/p>\n

Platt, Charles A. Italian Gardens<\/em>. Portland, OR: Sagapress\/Timber Press, 1993.<\/p>\n

Robertson, Ian. Paris and Versailles<\/em>. London: Black, 1992.<\/p>\n

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History<\/em>. New York: Abrams, 2001.<\/p>\n

Schuyler, David. Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815\u20131852<\/em>. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Shepherd, J.C. and G.A. Jellicoe. Italian Gardens of the Renaissance<\/em>. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.<\/p>\n

Tatum, George B., and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall , <\/strong>eds. <\/strong>Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815\u20131852<\/em>. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1989.<\/p>\n

Triggs, H. Inigo. The Art of Garden Design in Italy<\/em>. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1906.<\/p>\n

van der Ree, Paul, Gerrit Smienk, and Clemens Steenbergen. Italian Villas and Gardens<\/em>. Amsterdam: Thoth, 1992.<\/p>\n

Wharton, Edith. Italian Villas and Their Gardens<\/em>. New York: Da Capo, 1976.<\/p>\n

Wolfflin, Heinrich. \u201cThe Villa and the Garden,\u201d in Renaissance and Baroque<\/em>. Trans. Katharine Simon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Site Specific Resources<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\n

Piero de\u2019 Crescenzi<\/span><\/h4>\n

Bauman, Johanna, \u201cTradition and Transformation: The Pleasure Garden in Piero de\u2019 Crescenzi\u2019s \u2018Liber ruralium commodorum.’\u201dStudies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes<\/em> 22 (Summer 2002), pp. 99-141.<\/p>\n

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Dutch Villas and Country Houses<\/span><\/h4>\n

Hunt, John Dixon, Editor. The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century<\/em>. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1990.<\/p>\n

Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer. Courtly Gardens in Holland<\/em>. Amsterdam: Architectura and Natura Press, 2001.<\/p>\n

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Frascati Villas<\/span><\/h4>\n

Ehrlich, Tracy L. Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press and the American Academy in Rome, 2002.<\/p>\n

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Gwinn<\/span><\/h4>\n

Karson, Robin. The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt & Ellen Biddle Shipman<\/em>. Sagaponack, N.Y.: Sagapress, 1995.<\/p>\n

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Hellbrun<\/span><\/h4>\n

Bigler, Robert R. Schloss Hellbrunn: Wunderkammer der Gartenarchitektur<\/em>. Vienna: B\u00f6laus Verlag, 1996.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Horace\u2019s Villa<\/span><\/h4>\n

Frischer, Bernard D. and Iain Gordon Brown, eds. Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace\u2019s Villa<\/em>. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.<\/p>\n

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Hadrian\u2019s Villa<\/span><\/h4>\n

MacDonald, William Lloyd and John Pinto. Hadrian\u2019s Villa and Its Legacy<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n

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Lombard Villas<\/span><\/h4>\n

Harris, Dianne. The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy<\/em>. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Borghese<\/span><\/h4>\n

Campitelli, Alberta. Villa Borghese<\/em>. Milan: Skira, 2003.<\/p>\n

\u2014. Villa Borghese: da Giardino del Principe a Parco dei Romani<\/em>. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Libreria dello Stato, 2003.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Doria-Pamphili<\/span><\/h4>\n

Benocci, Carla. Villa Doria Pamphili<\/em>. Milan: Electa, 1988.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa d\u2019Este<\/span><\/h4>\n

Coffin, David R. The Villa d\u2019Este at Tivoli<\/em>. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1960.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Gamberaia<\/span><\/h4>\n

Osmond, Patricia, ed. \u201cVilla Gamberaia: Sources and Interpretations,\u201d in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes<\/em>. Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 2002 (Special issue).<\/p>\n

Osmond, Patricia, ed. Revisiting the Gamberaia: An Anthology of Essays on Villa Gamberaia<\/em>. Florence: Centro Di della Edifimi, 2004.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Lante<\/span><\/h4>\n

Barth, Fritz. Die Villa Lante in Bagnaia<\/em>. Stuttgart, Germany: Axel Menges, 2001.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Madama<\/span><\/h4>\n

Dewex, Guy. Villa Madama: A Memoir Relating to Raphael\u2019s Project.<\/em> New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Medici, Rome<\/span><\/h4>\n

Chastel, Andr\u00e9, Editor. La Villa M\u00e9dicis.<\/em> 3 Volumes. Rome: Acad\u00e9mie de France \u00e0 Rome: Ecole Fran\u00e7aise de Rome, 1989\u20131991.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Pia<\/span><\/h4>\n

Smith, Graham. The Casino of Pius IV<\/em>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Villas of the Veneto<\/span><\/h4>\n

Ackerman, James. S. Palladio<\/em>. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1966.<\/p>\n

Constant, Caroline. Palladio Guide of 1988<\/em>. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Cosgrove, Denis. The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy<\/em>. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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