ROMANCE OF ROMAN VILLAS (The Renaissance)

Large octavo, gray cloth covers stamped in gilt and black, top edge gilt. xx [2] 393 pages [22] + 4 pages of publisher's ads. Illustrated with photogravures and other illustrations. Richmond Library Association bookplate on front pastedown endpaper (with discard stamp); small library stamps on margin of first and last pages of text. Some ink lettering on rear paste-down endpaper. Light foxing throughout. Covers are bright and unrubbed. "That the 16th century should have produced the most palatial residences ever inhabited by prelates was but a natural outcome of the conditions then existing. The society of Rome was a hierarchical aristocracy made up of the younger sons of every powerful and ambitious family of Italy, and the red hat was so greatly desired not for the honour and emoluments of the cardinalcy per se but because it was a step to the papacy." --from the introduction. Architecture, Italy, Popes, Cardinals, Art, Sculpture. 112304A

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Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year: 1908

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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