Villa Emo In 1539 Leonardo Emo di Alvise inherited a portion of the family property in Fanzolo in Northern Italy from his uncle, a Venetian patrician. The land was acquired as part of an extensive effort by the Venetian nobility to develop the terra firma for agricultural use. Leonardo was seven years old at the time so it was not until around 1559 that he engaged Andrea Palladio to design a new residential complex for the estate. …showed first 75 words of 1972 total…

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