Villa Parisi

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Villa Parisi - Borghese is a villa in Frascati, now in Monte Porzio Catone municipal territory, Italy. It was built between 1604 and 1605 by Mons. Fernando Taverna. In 1615 became owner Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576-1633). Later a nymphaeum and the stately portal were built togheter villa's extension work on project of architect Girolamo Rainaldi (1570-1655). Camillo Borghese (1775-1832) in 1729 promoted further renovations. Painted decorations was carried in XIX century by painters Giuseppe Valeriani (? - 1762) and his brother Domenico (? - 1771), Ignazio Heldman and Taddeo Kuntze. In 1896 the villa was purchased by Savero Parisi, entrepreneur. In the garden are present Roman remains of an old roman villa. It was the summer residence of Princess Pauline Bonaparte wife of Camillo Borghese and his family. Now the villa isn't open to the public.

Villa Parisi is also a "barrio" (slum) in Cubatao, Brazil, that was the site of a major industrial accident on February 25th, 1984. The German sociologist, Ulrich Beck, used the case of Villa Parisi ("The dirtiest chemical town in the world") as an example of the "destructive powers of the developed risk industry."

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Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: Towards a new modernity. London: Sage.