Hadrian's Villa and Tivoli [antikvár]

VISION EDITIONSARCHAEOLOGICAL ADVICE AND TEXTS BYDR. CATIA CAPRINO FOR HADRIAN'S VILLADR. PAOLA ZACCAGNI FOR TIVOLIPROF. LUIGI SALERNO FOR THE VILLA D'ESTEART CONSULTANT A. EQUINIEDITORIAL CONSULTANT - L. DE FERRANTETRANSLATION BY I.B. WARD PERKINSPREFACEThis new VISION Guide follows the same methods of presentation as in previous volumes of this series.With its transparent colour restorations and outline drawings on photographs it aims to help the tourist to visualize the appearance of Hadrian's Villa and of the temples of Tivoli before time and the hand of man reduced them to ruins.The idea of coupling the Villa d'Este with Hadrian's Villa was suggested as much by their community of spirit as by their proximity one to the other.Today the nymphaea, the fountains the fish-ponds of Hadrian's Villa are silent, but they live on, in altered form, in the Villa d'Este.Despite the passage of 1400 years Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, lover and student of Roman antiquity, used the same landscape and the same springs to recreate the classical and Hellenistic world of the emperor Hadrian.It is our hope, therefore, to present the tourist with a suggestive glimpse of two magnificent villas: one dating from the Roman Empire, the other from the humanistic Rome of the sixteenth century.