Book of Donmon Teith

“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and fal

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of th

The J. Paul Getty Trust presents an architectural drawing of a Roman villa as it appeared during the time of the Roman Emperor Trajan (53-117), who ruled from 9

Throughout the early modern period, the villas of Frascati played a central role in Roman social politics. New families penetrated Roman society and began to cl

The tradition of villeggiatura, or withdrawal to a country residence, was a central feature of Italian life in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries after urban