Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s Discrizione della villa pliniana: Visions of Antiquity in the Landscape of...

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Anatole Tchikine Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

Francesco Ignazio Lazzari’s Discrizione della villa pliniana

Visions of Antiquity in the Landscape of Umbria

Anatole Tchikine, Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey

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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
30 November 2021

Art of indigenous peoples; Landscape art & architecture

Series: Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies

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 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 Ruffinière 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.

By: Anatole Tchikine, Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Imprint: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 902g
ISBN: 9780884024873
ISBN 10: 0884024873
Series: Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anatole Tchikine is Curator of Rare Books at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey is Professor in the Department of Art at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.