Villa Settefinestre lies between Capalbio and Orbetello in Tuscany, Italy, and is the site of a late Republican Roman slave-run villa owned by the senatorial family of the Volusii, built in the first century BC and enlarged in the first century AD with a large cryptoportico. Capalbio is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 150 km south of Orbetello is a town and commune in the Province of Grosseto ( Tuscany) Italy. Tuscany (Toscana is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22990 km² and a population of about 3 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the A villa was originally an Upper-class Country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably Volusius may refer to Lucius Volusius Saturninus, (38 BC - 56 AD Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul, suffect consul of 12 The villa was fortified at a later period and the fortress was rebuilt as a villa in the more modern sense in the 15th century. It was excavated during 1976-1981 under the direction of Andrea Carandini and very thoroughly published. Count Andrea Carandini (born 1937 is an Italian archaeologist specialising in Ancient Rome. Villa Settefinestre itself was rehabilitated in the 1970s as a luxury holiday rental property, with the ruins, open to the public, picturesquely incorporated in the garden plan.
The villa was in the Ager Cosanus the vicinity of Cosa, a Latin colonia founded in 273 BC, reached from Rome along the Via Aurelia. For the spanish town see Cosa Spain Cosa was a Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern A Roman colonia (plural coloniae) was originally a Roman outpost established in conquered territory to secure it Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 The Via Aurelia was a Roman road constructed around the year 241 BC. Cosa suffered a crisis in the Roman Republican civil wars and became depopulated. List of Civil wars involving Rome. There were several Roman civil wars, especially during the time of the late Republic. In its stead, a group of great villas were assembled in the area, run by slave labor not unlike the latifundia holdings typical of southern Italy. Latifundia are pieces of property covering tremendous areas The latifundia (Latin lātifundium; lātus, "spacious" + fundus, "farm estate" The villa at Settefinestre was not the peristyle villa described by Pliny or to be seen at Herculaneum, filled with sculpture, mosaic floors and fine paintings. In Greek and Roman architecture a peristyle is a Columned Porch or open Colonnade in a Building that surrounds a court Gaius or Caius Plinius Secundus, ( AD 23 – August 25, AD 79 better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient Author Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) is an ancient Roman town located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. Nor was it in any way like the Imperial villas round the Bay of Naples, of course, though the sea is visible from its site. The Gulf of Naples is located in the south western coast of Italy ( Province of Naples, Campania region This was Roman agrobusiness: instead of fine mosaics, a wealth of Roman tools have been recovered here (Settefinestre vol. III). "Settefinestre has been taken as an example of how the advice of Roman agricultural writers like Columella and Varro were put into practice. Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella ( Gades, Hispania Baetica, AD 4 - ca Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC &ndash 27 BC also known as Varro Reatinus to distinguish him from his younger contemporary Varro Atacinus, was a Roman "It is truly remarkable how well this villa, with its extensive repertoire of buildings and forms, instantiates the accounts of the Roman agronomists: the best example of Varro's villa perfecta (I, 194). In detail after detail the advice of Varro and Columella is to be found in practice here" (Purcell, reviewing the published official reports). The commercial product of Roman Villa Settefinestre was wine.
Aside from the villa at Settefinestre, there are remains of comparable contemporary villas at Colonne and Provincia. Colonne is a village and commune in the Jura département, in the French region of Franche-Comté. A province is a territorial unit almost always an Administrative division.
The exemplary archaeological excavations at Settefinestre have been taken as a starting point for the new phase of science-supported field archaeology in Italian work that is providing a more detailed study of the occupation history of the Roman countryside and moves beyond the antiquarian tradition of villa-studies [1].
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- Settefinestre: Una Villa Schiavistica Nell'Etruria Romana edited A. Carandini and A Ricci, (Modena, 1985) : several lavish volumes present the detailed report of the archaeology.
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