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Medici gardens : from making to design / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto.
LIBRA SB466.I82 F5648 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fabiani Giannetto, Raffaella.
- Series:
- Penn studies in landscape architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens--Italy--Florence--History--15th century.
- Gardens.
- Gardens--Italy--Tuscany--History--15th century.
- Medici, House of.
- Gardens in art.
- History.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Italy--Florence.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Medici Gardens 10
- Trebbio and Cafaggiolo 10
- Careggi 30
- Fiesole 53
- Chapter 2 From Work of Nature to Work of Art 88
- Chapter 3 Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism 99
- Petrarch and Boccaccio 99
- Marsilio Ficino and the Neoplatonic Pleasance 131
- Chapter 4 Practice and Theory 146
- The Design of the Garden 146
- The Writing of Tradition 161
- Appendix A Letter by Galeazzo Maria Sforza 187
- Appendix B Metric Letter by Alessandro Braccesi 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812240723
- 9780812240726
- OCLC:
- 175286363
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