The Italian garden : art, design, and culture / edited by John Dixon Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, John Dixon, editor.

Contributor:

Chittolini, Giorgio, publishing director.

Mozzarelli, Cesare, publishing director.

Oresko, Robert, publishing director.

Symcox, Geoffrey, publishing director.

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Bridgewater Books, bookjacket designer.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Italian history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens, Italian--History.

Gardens, Italian.

Gardens--Italy--History.

Gardens.

History.

Italy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 307 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Summary:

"Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection 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 fresh 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. The book offers therefore a narrative of the garden by selecting ten high points of its history, which are introduced with a consideration by the volume editor of the fresh challenges to contemporary Italian garden history." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : making and writing the Italian garden / John Dixon Hunt

Gardens in Italian literature during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Lucia Battaglia Ricci

Some Medici gardens of the Florentine Renaissance : an essay in post-aesthetic interpretation / D. R. Edward Wright

Christ the gardener and the chain of symbols : the gardens around the walls of sixteenth-century Ferrara / G. Leoni

The gardens of villas in the Veneto from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Margherita Azzi Visentini

The gardens of the Milanese villeggiatura in the mid-sixteenth century / Iris Lauterbach

Hard times in baroque Florence : the Boboli Garden and the grand ducal public works administration / Malcolm Campbell

Fruit and flower gardens from the neoclassical and romantic periods in Tuscany / Alessandro Tosi

Gardens and parks in Liguria in the second half of the nineteenth century / Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno

Sicilian gardens / Gianni Pirrone

Jappell's gardens : 'in dreams begin responsibilities'

Raymond W. Gastil.

Notes:

Jacket design by Bridgewater Books.

Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture edited by Giorgio Chittolini, Università degli Studi, Milan; Cesare Mozzarelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan; Robert Oresko, Institute of Historical Research, University of London; and Geoffrey Symcox, University of California, Lost Angeles.

"This series comprises monographs and a variety of collaborative volumes, including translated works, which will concentrate on the period of Italian history from late medieval times up to the Risorgimento. The editors aim to stimulate scholarly debate over a range of issues which have not hitherto received, in English, the attention they deserve. As it develops, the series will emphasise the interest and vigour of current international debates on this central period of Italian history and the persistent influence of Italian culture on the rest of Europe." -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

0521443539

OCLC:

33897861