The four books / Robert Pane -- The villa : genesis and development up to Palladio / Ludwig H. Heydenreich -- The courtyards of Palladian buildings / Mario Zocconi -- Faults and abuses of Lord Burlington's publication of Palladio's drawings of classical antiquity / Gian Giorgio Zorzi -- The theorists of neoclassicism / Rosario Assunto -- Recurrent elements and motifs in Andrea Palladio / Antonio M. Dalla Pozza -- Palladio and neoclassicism / Mario Praz -- Introduction to the esthetics of Palladio / Rosario Assunto