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a social history of the Medici Tuscan villas
viii, 205 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
By exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty. Lavishly illustrated, Cultivating the Renaissance is of great interest to students and scholars of architecture, horticulture, landscape history, philosophy, art and the history of the Renaissance in Italy.
The early Renaissance villa as a humanist retreat -- The high Renaissance villa as royal court -- The late Renaissance villa as pleasure palace.
Includes bibliographical references and index.