I cannot claim to be the most objective reviewer of Andrea Palladio: The Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese, edited by Branko Mitrovié and Stephen R. Wassell, with contributions by Tim Ross and Melanie Bourke. I have know both of the editors for a good while and have spoken to them at length about the Villa Cornaro and Andrea Palladio, and even participated (in a very minor way, and principally by bringing along someone who did the dirty work) in the survey campaign. Some of my most pleasant hours have been spent with Sally and Carl Gable in “their” villa in Piombino Dese. On the other hand, what I lack in objectivity, the book amply makes up for in objectivity of its own, just one of the many respects in which this is not just another book about Palladio.