Francesco Ignazio Lazzari's Discrizione della villa pliniana : visions of antiquity in the landscape of Umbria /

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 Città di Castello, an Umbrian city that maintained a remarkable degree of cultural autonomy during the early modern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Tchikine, Anatole (Author), Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Latin
Language Notes:	English translation, with original Latin text.
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2021].
Series:	Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks texts in garden and landscape studies.
Subjects:	Lazzari, Francesco Ignazio, > 1634-1717. Pliny, > the Younger > Homes and haunts > Italy > San Giustino. Villa of Pliny the Younger (San Giustino, Italy) > Early works to 1800. Architecture, Domestic > Italy > San Giustino > Early works to 1800. Architecture, Domestic > Italy > Città di Castello > Early works to 1800. Architecture, Roman > Italy > San Giustino > Early works to 1800. Architecture, Roman > Italy > Città di Castello > Early works to 1800. Gardens > Italy > San Giustino > Early works to 1800. Gardens > Italy > Città di Castello > Early works to 1800. San Giustino (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Early works to 1800. Città di Castello (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Early works to 1800.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Prologue: Fitting together the pieces of the Lazzari puzzle / Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Acknowledgments
Repatriating Pliny : Lazzari and his reconstruction / Anatole Tchikine
"So that the memory of this villa..." : Lazzari's two antiquities / Anatole Tchikine
"Tuscos meos" : visions of Pliny's villas by Lazzari, his predecessors, and his contemporaries / Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Epilogue: Local memory and national myth / Anatole Tchikine
Description of Pliny's villa / Francesco Ignazio Lazzari ; translated with notes from Italian and Latin / by Anatole Tchikine and Taylor Ellis Johnson
Discrizione della villa pliniana / Francesco Ignazio Lazzari / transcription by Anatole Tchikine and Taylor Ellis Johnson
Appendix 1: Pliny the Younger, letter to Apollinaris / translated from Latin by Taylor Ellis Johnson
Appendix 2: Nine Latin inscriptions found in the area of Città di Castello (Appendix to the Città di Castello manuscript) / transcription by Anatole Tchkine
Appendix 3: Legend of Lazzari's drawing / transcription by Anatole Tchikine
Appendix 4: Chronology of Lazzari's writings / Anatole Tchikine.