This bibliography of secondary sources seeks to provide students and teachers with a basic list of the most recent and useful secondary sources on the villa as a landscape type as well as the individual featured sites. It is by no means comprehensive and should be viewed as a starting point for further research.
General Secondary Sources
Ackerman, James S. The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country
Houses. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Acton, Harold. The Villas of Tuscany. 1973. Reprint,
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
Alberti, Leon Battista. De Re Aedificatoria. Translated
by Joseph Rywert with Neil Leach and Robert Tavernor. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1988.
Barsali, Isa Belli. Ville Di Roma, 2nd ed. Milan: Rusconi,
1983.
Barsali, Isa Belli and Maria Grazia Branchetti. Ville Della
Campagna Romana. Milan: Rusconi, 1981.
Benes, Mirka and Diane Harris. Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Caro Stefano de. ‘The Sculptures of the Villa of Poppaea at Oplontis: A Preliminary Report,’ Ancient Roman Villa Gardens. Washington DC.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987.
Chatfield, Judith. A Tour of Italian Gardens. New York:
Rizzoli, 1988.
Coffin, David R. Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Coffin, David R. The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Coffin, David R., ed. The Italian Garden. Washington,
D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1972.
Colonna, Francesco. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of
Love in a Dream. Trans. Joscelyn Godwin. New York: Thames
& Hudson, 1999.
Dennis, Michael. Court & Garden: From the French Hôtel
to the City of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1986.
Clarke, Ethne. The Gardens of Tuscany. New York : Rizzoli,
1990.
Eustis, Elizabeth. European Pleasure Gardens: Rare Books and
Prints of Historic Landscape Design from the Elizabeth K. Reilley
Collection. New York: The New York Botanical Garden, 2003.
Goode, Patrick and Michael Lancaster, eds. The Oxford Companion
to Gardens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Hunt, John Dixon, ed. The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Jashemski, Wilhelmina. “Recently Excavated Gardens and Cultivated Land of the Villas at Boscoreale and Oplontis,” in Ancient Roman Villa Gardens, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987.
Lazzaro, Claudia. The Italian Renaissance Garden. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
MacDougall, Elizabeth B., ed. Fons Sapientiae: Renaissance
Garden Fountains. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1978.
Masson, Georgina. Italian Gardens. 1961. Rev. ed. Woodbridge,
Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1987.
Piccione, Massimo, ed. Gardens of Tuscany. Florence: Edifir, 2001.
Platt, Charles A. Italian Gardens. Portland, OR: Sagapress/Timber
Press, 1993.
Robertson, Ian. Paris and Versailles. London: Black, 1992.
Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Landscape Design: A Cultural and
Architectural History. New York: Abrams, 2001.
Schuyler, David. Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing,
1815–1852. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Shepherd, J.C. and G.A. Jellicoe. Italian Gardens of the Renaissance.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
Tatum, George B., and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall , eds. Prophet with Honor: The Career of Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1989.
Triggs, H. Inigo. The Art of Garden Design in Italy. London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1906.
van der Ree, Paul, Gerrit Smienk, and Clemens Steenbergen.
Italian Villas and Gardens. Amsterdam: Thoth, 1992.
Wharton, Edith. Italian Villas and Their Gardens. New
York: Da Capo, 1976.
Wolfflin, Heinrich. “The Villa and the Garden,” in
Renaissance and Baroque. Trans. Katharine Simon. Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.
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Piero de’ Crescenzi
Bauman, Johanna, “Tradition and Transformation: The Pleasure Garden in Piero de’ Crescenzi’s ‘Liber ruralium commodorum.'”Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 22 (Summer 2002), pp. 99-141.
Dutch Villas and Country Houses
Hunt, John Dixon, Editor. The Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth
Century. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1990.
Sellers, Vanessa Bezemer. Courtly Gardens in Holland.
Amsterdam: Architectura and Natura Press, 2001.
Frascati Villas
Ehrlich, Tracy L. Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome:
Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era. New York: Cambridge
University Press and the American Academy in Rome,
2002.
Gwinn
Karson, Robin. The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden
Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt & Ellen Biddle
Shipman. Sagaponack, N.Y.: Sagapress, 1995.
Hellbrun
Bigler, Robert R. Schloss Hellbrunn: Wunderkammer der Gartenarchitektur.
Vienna: Bölaus Verlag, 1996.
Horace’s Villa
Frischer, Bernard D. and Iain Gordon Brown, eds. Allan Ramsay
and the Search for Horace’s Villa. Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2001.
Hadrian’s Villa
MacDonald, William Lloyd and John Pinto. Hadrian’s Villa and
Its Legacy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Lombard Villas
Harris, Dianne. The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape,
and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy. University
Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
Villa Borghese
Campitelli, Alberta. Villa Borghese. Milan: Skira, 2003.
—. Villa Borghese: da Giardino del Principe a Parco dei Romani.
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Libreria dello Stato,
2003.
Villa Doria-Pamphili
Benocci, Carla. Villa Doria Pamphili. Milan: Electa, 1988.
Villa d’Este
Coffin, David R. The Villa d’Este at Tivoli. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1960.
Villa Gamberaia
Osmond, Patricia, ed. “Villa Gamberaia: Sources and Interpretations,”
in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 2002
(Special issue).
Osmond, Patricia, ed. Revisiting the Gamberaia: An Anthology of Essays on Villa Gamberaia. Florence: Centro Di della Edifimi, 2004.
Villa Lante
Barth, Fritz. Die Villa Lante in Bagnaia. Stuttgart, Germany: Axel
Menges, 2001.
Villa Madama
Dewex, Guy. Villa Madama: A Memoir Relating to Raphael’s
Project. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
Villa Medici, Rome
Chastel, André, Editor. La Villa Médicis. 3 Volumes.
Rome: Académie de France à Rome: Ecole Française
de Rome, 1989–1991.
Villa Pia
Smith, Graham. The Casino of Pius IV. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1977.
Villas of the Veneto
Ackerman, James. S. Palladio. Harmondsworth, England:
Penguin, 1966.
Constant, Caroline. Palladio Guide of 1988. Princeton:
Princeton Architectural Press, 1985.
Cosgrove, Denis. The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change
and its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy.
University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1993.
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