Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.
Contents
Landscape and enlightened absolutism -- Landscape and representation -- The printed view and Marc' Antonio Dal Re's Ville di delizie -- Mapping the landscape of reform -- Displaying the social landscape -- Villas of delight? -- The architecture of production and display -- Environmental absolutism: The villas Clerici -- Gardens in eighteenth-century Lombardy -- Gardens and social distinction.