Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia Degli Arcadi and Its Garden in Eighteenth-Century Rome

by Susan M. Dixon

This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating within a papal court society, it eschewed extant patronage systems and social hierarchies and introduced enlightened ideas to its members. By attending to the institution's policies, Between the Real...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611492890
• ISBN13: 9781611492897
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.0"