Palladian Days: Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House Audiobook (Free)

“Palladian Days is certainly nothing in short supply of wonderful-part experience, mystery, history, journal, as well as cookbook. The Gables’ exciting account captures the enthusiasm of their acquisition and recovery of 1 of the greatest houses in Italy. Beguiled by Palladio and the city of Piombino Dese, they trace the history of the Villa Cornaro and their absorption of Italian existence. Bravo!” -Susan R. Stein, Gilder Curator and Vice Chief executive of Museum Applications, MonticelloIn 1552, in the countryside outdoors Venice, about Palladian Times: Finding a New Life within a Venetian Nation House the great Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio constructed Villa Cornaro. In 1989, Sally and Carl Gable became its bemused brand-new owners. Known as by City & Nation among the ten most important structures in the world, the villa is the centerpiece of the Gables’ enchanting journey into the existence of a location that transformed their own. From the villa’s history and its own architectural pleasures, to the lives of its former inhabitants, towards the charms of the little city that surrounds it, this caring accounts brings generosity, humor, and a feeling of discovery to the story of small-town Italy and its own larger national history.