Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. 1 The Typology of the Villa 9
5. 2 The Ancient Roman Villa 35
6. 3 The Early Villas of the Medici 63
7. 4 Palladio's Villas and their Predecessors 89
8. 5 The Image of Country Life in Sixteenth-Centilry Villa Books 108
9. Appendix The Advantages of Villa Life 124
10. 6 The Palladian Villa in England 135
11. 7 The Landscape Garden 159
12. 8 Thomas Jefferson 185
13. 9 The Picturesque 213
14. 10 Andrew Jackson Downing and the American Romantic Villa 229
15. 11 The Modern Villa: Wright and Le Corbusier 253
16. Postscript 286
17. Notes 287
18. Sources of Illustrations 300
19. Index 301