what is 'Timon's Villa' in the Epistle to Burlington by Alexander pope?
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Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington' (1731)
In 1730 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694 1753) published a collection of drawings of a number of ancient Roman buildings made by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio, which he had acquired while traveling in Italy in 1718, under the title Fabbriche Anticde disegnate da Andrea Palladio (Curl, 1993, p. 28). Burlington was at this time well-known as a promoter and practitioner of the Palladian style in architecture, and was seen by many contemporaries, including his friend the poet Alexander Pope, as a leader of taste (Rogers, 1978, pp. 213-4). The following year Pope published 'An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Burlington' which was occasioned by Burlington's collection of Palladio's drawings and which dealt directly with the issues of aesthetic taste and judgment at the heart of the Burlingtonian movement in architecture.