Villas in Italy & Canton Ticino (Best Interiors Selection)

The villas of Andrea Palladio have been among the most influential buildings in history. Drawing on the architect's original published legacy of forty-odd designs, George Hersey an...

A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces – motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetit...

Abstract The Short Oxford History of Italy series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each pe...

The essays collected in this volume draw from the history of law and institutions, history of art and urban planning, geography and cartography, economic and social history, and pr...