The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses - Paperbackby James S. Ackerman (Author) A classic account of the villa from ancient Rome to the twentieth century by "the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture" (Architect's Newspaper) In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth century France and America. In this wide ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in