BOOK COVER; TITLE; CONTENTS; COPYRIGHT; PREFACE; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE: Origins and Development of the Villa; CHAPTER TWO: The Ideology of Villa Life in Florentine Culture and Society; CHAPTER THREE: Typological Research and Renaissance Treatises; CHAPTER FOUR: The Garden: Origin and Development; CHAPTER FIVE: Villas in the Nineteenth Century; PART TWO; CHAPTER SIX: The Shape of the Landscape; CHAPTER SEVEN: The History of the Area; CHAPTER EIGHT: Mapping the Area; PART THREE; VILLAS IN THE CASTELLO-SESTO FIORENTINO AREA; APPENDIX: Six villas to visit; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES
Summary
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day
