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- Title
Illustriousness in the Farmhouse Villa: Reading Virtue from a Flemish-Veronese Merchant Family's History.
- Authors
Dewhirst, Catherine
- Abstract
The Italian nobility has a long history tied to landownership, a dynamic example of which lies in the history of Verona from the late sixteenth century. Sweeping economic change, intellectual currents, agricultural policies, and the built heritage facilitated the rise in status of some mercantile families. Tracing the pressures facing a foreign merchant family emigrating to Venice and settling in Verona's Valpolicella reveals the importance of social integration for the family's members. Their farmhouse villa estate represents an enduring monument not only to the contemporary value of civic virtue but also to the construction of a noble identity.
- Subjects
VERONA (Italy); ITALY; NOBILITY (Social class); LAND tenure; SOCIAL integration
- Publication
Parergon, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0313-6221
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pgn.2011.0014