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9780521033923

The Italian Garden: Art, Design and Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521033923

  • ISBN10:

    0521033926

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-02-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection of essays approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the Middle Ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and Ferrara to Florence. The authors are a distinguished group of Italian, American, English and German scholars, with different backgrounds in art history, literature, architecture, planning and cultural history. Their explorations of the subject from these different perspectives illuminate not only their own disciplines, but are concerned to make many interesting connections between garden art and the politics of nationalism, between the art of gardens and urban infrastructure, between cultural movements like freemasonry and site planning, between design and planting materials.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. ix
List of contributorsp. xv
Introduction: Making and writing the Italian gardenp. 1
Gardens in Italian literature during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuriesp. 6
Some Medici gardens of the Florentine Renaissance: an essay in post-aesthetic interpretationp. 34
Christ the Gardener and the chain of symbols: the gardens around the walls of sixteenth-century Ferrarap. 60
The gardens of villas in the Veneto from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuriesp. 93
The gardens of the Milanese villeggiatura in the mid-sixteenth centuryp. 127
Hard times in baroque Florence: the Boboli Garden and the grand ducal public works administrationp. 160
Fruit and flower gardens from the neoclassical and romantic periods in Tuscanyp. 202
Gardens and parks in Liguria in the second half of the nineteenth centuryp. 222
Sicilian gardensp. 250
Jappelli's gardens: 'In dreams begin responsibilities'p. 274
Indexp. 303
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