Author: KENNET, WAYLAND & YOUNG, ELIZABETH
Title: NORTHERN LAZIO - an unknown Italy.
Description: London, John Murray, 1990. 1st edition. Hard bound with dustjacket, 22cmx14cm, Fine condition. Front jacket illustration: Donato Fierro Perez: Lago di Bolsena. Photographs: Wayland Kennet. Drawings: Elizabeth Young. Contents: Part one. Introduction. A). The land. 1). Geology and geography. 2). The rivers. 3). Human settlements. 4). Agriculture. B). History. 1). The Etruscans. 2). The Romans. 3). The dark ages. 4). The Holy Roman Empire. 5). The state and the Renaissance. 6). After the Farnese. C). General. 1). Landscape. 2). Vegetation. 3). Animals. 4). Food (other than fish. 5). Fish (fauna and food). 6). Wine. 7). Water and baths. D). Appendix I: decorative images. 1). Trifrons and Tuscania. 2). Lombardic imagery. 3). The Chimaera. 4). The Renaissance. Appendix II: Villas. I1). Hypnerotomachia and the roads to felicity. 2). Rome's villas and gardens. 3). The ancient Roman villa as precedent. 4). The Villa Madama. 5). The villa as an art-form. Part two. Places (in alphabetical order, exept Viterbo). 1). Viterbo. a). History. b). The city. c). Churches. d). Other buildings. e). Museums. e). The Macchina di Santa Rosa. With glossary, bibliography, general matrix, Viterbo matrix and index. 2 maps and 26 illustrations. VI + 337 pag.

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