The Villas

Core Reading (see also the bibliographies for The Empire of the Sea and the Empire of the Land and the Terraferma)

Collier, William, 'The Villa Pisani at StraLink opens in a new window', Italian Studies 17/1 (1962): 35–47

Cornaro, Alvise, Writings on the Sober Life: The Art and Grace of Living Long, trans. Hiroko Fudemoto (Toronto, 2014), especially pp. 48-50, 131-139, 155-158.

Cosgrove, Denis, "Power and Place in the Venetian Territories" in The Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological ImaginationsLink opens in a new window, ed. John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan (London, 1989), 104-23. [For Villa Godi]

Kubelik, Martin, 'Palladio’s Villas in the Tradition of the Veneto FarmLink opens in a new window ', Assemblage 1 (1986), 90-115.

Palladio, Andrea, The Four Books on ArchitectureLink opens in a new window, ed. and trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), p. 143 [Villa Godi].

Pixley, Mary L. ‘Patronage and the Construction of Nobility: The Villa Godi Fresco Cycle and the Villa's Role in the Veneto and the Politics of a Sixteenth-Century Patrician FamilyLink opens in a new window’, 1998.

Woolf, S.J., ‘Venice and the Terraferma: Problems of the Change from Commercial to Landed Activities’, in Brian Pullan (ed.), Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (London, 1968), pp.175-203.

E-resources

Villa Godi Malinverni websiteLink opens in a new window

Villa Pisani at Stra websiteLink opens in a new window

Palladio and the VenetoLink opens in a new window. Descriptions and images of all Palladio's buildings.