Renaissance dominion and hierarchy: art, nature, and science in Caprarola’s Palazzo Farnese

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BY: Kenneth Scambray

In the early nineteenth century, when the great French writer Stendhal visited Florence, he claimed that he was so overwhelmed by the town’s vast accumulation of culture that he fainted. This condition has become famously known as the Stendhal Syndrome, sometimes even referred to as the Florence Syndrome.

But this is an experience that the traveler can have just about any place in Italy, even in its most out-of-the-way villages.  Only recently did I have that same faint feeling when Carole and I visited the unassuming village of Caprarola, once known during the Renaissance as a rustic hamlet dedicated to raising goats, as its name implies. 

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SOURCE: https://italoamericano.org

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