James Sloss Ackerman is the author of the standard Penguin paperback monograph on Palladio, Palladio’s Villas, and film: Palladio the Architect and His Influence in America, with the collaboration of Guido Beltramini, Director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi d’architettura and Palladio museum in Vicenza, and Howard Burns, President of the Centro.