Main entry:

Ehrlich, Tracy L., 1965-

Title & Author:

Landscape and identity in early modern Rome : villa culture at Frascati in the Borghese era / Tracy L. Ehrlich.

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press : in association with the American Academy in Rome, 2002.

Description:

xix, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Monuments of papal Rome

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-408) and index.
pt. 1. The Roman Setting. Ch. 1. Papacy and Aristocracy. Ch. 2. The Borghese -- pt. 2. Frascati in the Renaissance: Tusculo Restituto. Ch. 3. The Revival of Villeggiatura in the Farnese Era. Ch. 4. The First Papal Villas -- pt. 3. Frascati in Its Heyday: The Borghese at the Villa Mondragone. Ch. 5. Architecture and Ceremony. Ch. 6. Otium cum Negotium -- pt. 4. Land, Landscape, and Family Lore. Ch. 7. An Agricultural Enterprise. Ch. 8. A Dynastic Seat. Ch. 9. Land into Landscape. Documentary App. I. Inscriptions in the Garden Portico of the Palazzo Mondragone -- Documentary App. II. Lelio Guidiccioni, In Tusculanam Amoenitatem, Rome, 1623 -- Documentary App. III. The Tusculan Collection.

Summary:

"Borghese is the surname of a family of Italian noble and papal background, originating as the Borghese or Borghesi in Siena, where they came to prominence in the 13th century holding offices under the commune. The head of the family, Marcantonio, moved to Rome in the 16th century and there, following the election (1605) of his son Camillo as Pope Paul V they rose in power and wealth. They were one of the leading families of the Black Nobility and maintain close ties to the Vatican ... Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa originally in the territory of the Italian commune of Frascati (Latium, central Italy), now in the territory of Monte Porzio Catone (Alban Hills). It lies on a hill 416m above sea-level, in an area called, from its many castles and villas, Castelli Romani about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Rome, near the ancient town of Tusculum. Construction began in 1573 by Cardinal Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, who commissioned the design for it and for the Palazzo Altemps in central Rome from Martino Longhi the Elder, on the site of the remains of a Roman villa of the consular family of the Quinctilii. Pope Gregory XIII, whose heraldic dragon led to calling the villa "Mondragone", used the villa regularly as a summer residence, as guest of Cardinal Altemps. It was at the Villa Mondragone that in 1582, Gregory promulgated the document (the papal bull "Inter gravissimas") which initiated the reform of the calendar now in use and known as the Gregorian calendar. Villa Mondragone was at its maximum splendour during the epoch of the Borghese family (including Cardinal Scipione Borghese and Pope Paul V), who exhibited parts of their art and antiquities collections there (including the Antinous Mondragone which derives its name from the villa)."--Wikipedia.

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ISBN:

0521592577
9780521592574

Subject:

Borghese family.
Borghèse (Famille)
Borghese, Scipione 1577-1633
Borghese Familie
Villa Mondragone (Monte Porzio Catone, Italy)
Villa Mondragone (Frascati, Italie)
Elite (Social sciences) Italy Frascati.
Architecture and society Italy Frascati.
Élite (Sciences sociales) Italie Frascati.
Architecture et société Italie Frascati.
Architecture and society
Elite (Social sciences)
Manners and customs
Adelshaus
Architektur
Villa
Landschaftsplanung
Landhuizen.
Villa's.
Frascati (Italy) Social life and customs.
Frascati (Italie) Mœurs et coutumes.
Italy Frascati
Latium
Villa Mondragone
Frascati
Villa Mondragone (Italy)

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Monuments of papal Rome.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224519
Call No.: DG975.F82 E3 2002
Status: Available