Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
Elizabeth W. Champney, an American author of popular books on European history and places, wrote Romance of Roman Villas as part of her series on the villas and châteaux of Italy and France. Her subject is the great country houses built by the cardinals and princely families of Renaissance Rome, admired now, as she says, for the charm of their decay. Rather than a guidebook, she offers a sequence of stories set in and around the villas, told in part through invented memoirs, such as the episode of the French wars in Italy recounted by the knight Yves d'Allègre, mixing popes, artists and adventurers with legend and documented history. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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