| Variant title |
Discrizione della villa pliniana |
| Series |
Ex horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies
Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies. ^A1431315
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| Contents |
Prologue: Fitting together the pieces of the Lazzari puzzle / Pierre de la Ruffini̐uere du Prey -- Introduction: Repatriating Pliny / Anatole Tchikine -- "So that the memory of this villa..." -- Lazzari's two antiquities / Anatole Tchikine -- "Tuscos meos" -- visions of Pliny's villa by Lazzari, his contemporaries, and predecessors / Pierre de la Ruffini̐uere du Prey -- Epilogue: Local memory and national myth / Anatole Tchikine -- Francesco Ignazio Lazzari, Description of Pliny's villa / translated from Italian and Latin with notes by Anatole Tchikine and Taylor Johnson -- Francesco Ignazio Lazzari, Discrizione della villa pliniana / transcription by Anatole Tchikine and Taylor Johnson. |
| Abstract |
"A cultivated patrician, a prolific playwright, and a passionate student of local antiquity, Francesco Ignazio Lazzari (1634-1717) was a mainstay of the artistic and intellectual life of Citt̐ua di Castello, an Umbrian city that maintained a remarkable degree of cultural autonomy during the early modern period. He was also the first author to identify the correct location of the lost villa "in Tuscis" owned by the Roman writer and statesman Pliny the Younger and known through his celebrated description. Lazzari's reconstruction of this ancient estate, in the form of a large-scale drawing and a textual commentary, adds a unique document to the history of Italian gardens while offering a fascinating perspective on the role of landscape in shaping his native region's identity. Published with an English translation for the first time since its creation, this manuscript is framed by the scholarly contributions of Anatole Tchikine and Pierre de la Ruffini̐uere du Prey. At the core of their discussion is the interplay of two distinct ideas of antiquity-one embedded in the regional landscape and garden culture of Umbria and the other conveyed by the international tradition of Plinian architectural reconstructions-that provide the essential context for understanding Lazzari's work"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | English translation with original Latin text. |
| Related Item | Augmentation of (work): Lazzari, Francesco Ignazio, 1634-1717. Discrizione della villa pliniana. Discrizione del[l]a pianta, e delle alzate, e vedute del[l]a villa pliniana. [1703 or 1704] |
| Genre/form | Early works. |
| LCCN | 2021010521 |
| ISBN | 9780884024873 |
| ISBN | 0884024873 |
