{"id":8075,"date":"2025-03-13T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/catena\/?page_id=8075"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:12:46","slug":"historical-documentation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/catena\/historical-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION<\/h1><\/div>

The practice of garden and landscape history requires using primary and secondary sources, such as poetry, literature, travel descriptions, letters, and architectural records. The links below take you to some important resources for studying the history of the villa as a landscape type.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Alberti, Leon Battista. On the Art of Building in Ten Books.<\/em> (mid fifteenth century)<\/a><\/p>\n

Columella. On Agriculture<\/em>. (second century BCE)<\/a><\/p>\n

Crescenzi, Piero de\u2019. Liber ruralium commodorum<\/em>. (1305-1309)<\/a><\/p>\n

Erasmus. The Godly Feast<\/em>. (1522)<\/a><\/p>\n

James, Henry, \u201cRoman Rides.\u201d Atlantic Monthly 32<\/em> (March 1873): 190-98.<\/a><\/p>\n

James, Henry, \u201cRoman Neighborhoods.\u201d Atlantic Monthly 32<\/em> (December 1873): 671-80.<\/a><\/p>\n

James, Henry, \u201cThe After-Season in Rome.\u201d Nation 16<\/em> (June 1873): 399-400.<\/a><\/p>\n

James, Henry,\u201cFrom a Roman Note-Book.\u201d Galaxy 16<\/em> (November 1873): 679-86.<\/a><\/p>\n

James, Henry, \u201cA Few Other Roman Neighborhoods.\u201d Italian Hours<\/em>. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1992 [Originally written in 1909].<\/a><\/p>\n

Lipsius, Iustus. Two Bookes of Constancie<\/em>. (1584)<\/a><\/p>\n

Michel de Montaigne. Travel Journal<\/em>. (1580\u20131581)<\/a><\/p>\n

Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books on Architecture<\/em>. (1570)<\/a><\/p>\n

Pliny the Younger. Letter on the Laurentian Villa<\/em>. (first century)<\/a><\/p>\n

Pliny the Younger. Letters on the Tuscan Villa<\/em>. (first century)<\/a><\/p>\n

Varro, Marcus Terentius. On Agriculture<\/em>. (first century BCE)<\/a><\/p>\n

Vitruvius. The Ten Books on Architecture<\/em>. (first century BCE)Vitruvius. The Ten Books on Architecture. (first century BCE)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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