Henry Wotton on Theater of Hospitality
Sir Henry Wotton, letter, 1600:
“Every man’s proper mansion house and home being the theatre of his hospitality, the seate of his self fruition, the comfortable part of his own life, the noblest of his son’s inheritance, a kind of private princedom, may the possession thereof an epitome of the whole world may well deserve by these attributes, according to the degree of the master, to be delightfully adorned.”
Sir Henry Wotton, ambassador to Venice in 1604. He wrote Elements of Architecture.
Cited in Illustrated History of Architecture, p. 90.
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