Hadrian's Villa and Villa d'Este by Gioacchino Mancini - 1965

New York: Time Life Education. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0809413051 . 4to 11" - 13" tall; Series: The Emergence of Man; Ex-Library; 160 pages; Ex-library. Pictorial hardcovers with dark brown spine wraps, gold lettering. Lettering on spine is faded. Library cat label at lower end of spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Usual library stamps, marks or paste-downs are present. Interior pages are clean and remain bright. No dust jacket. .

La Liberia dello Stato nd, Roma, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good. 12 mo., softcover, VG in blue wraps with 62 b & w illustrations. Map on inside cover. No. 34 of the guidebooks to Italy. Text is in English tho printed in Italy. 51 pp. The Este family had been lords of Ferrara since 1393, and were famous as patrons of the arts and of the humanist scholars of the Renaissance. As a second son, Ippolito was destined for a career in the church; he was named archbishop of Milan when he was only ten years old. At the age of 27, he was sent to the French court, where he became an advisor to the French King, Pope Paul III made d'Este a cardinal. After the First World War, the villa was acquired by the Italian State, which began a major restoration in 1922. The villa was refurnished with paintings from the storerooms of the Galleria Nazionale, Rome.

Italy: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, 1956. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 7 in. Tourist guide in English, B&W photos. Paper covers. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers faintly stained, binding tight, text unmarked. Travel. Stax.