{"product_id":"the-italian-garden-art-design-and-culture-paperback-9780521033923","title":"The Italian Garden; Art, Design and Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521033923","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Italian Garden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArt, Design and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of ten interdisciplinary essays on the history and diversity of the Italian garden.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Dixon Hunt (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521033923, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 February 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 104 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 19 x 1.9 cm, 0.589 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The Italian Garden is a beneficial addition to the list of books about Italy and its protracted garden tradition.\"    Philip Pregill, Landscape Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eItalian 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: making and writing the Italian garden John Dixon Hunt\u003cbr\u003e 1. Gardens in Italian literature during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Lucia Battaglia Ricci\u003cbr\u003e 2. Some Medici gardens of the Florentine Renaissance: an essay in post-aesthetic interpretation D. R. Edward Wright\u003cbr\u003e 3. Christ the Gardener and the chain of symbols: the gardens around the walls of sixteenth-century Ferrara G. Leoni\u003cbr\u003e 4. The gardens of villas in the Veneto from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margherita Azzi Visentini\u003cbr\u003e 5. The gardens of the Milanese villeggiatura in the mid-sixteenth century Iris Lauterbach\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hard times in baroque Florence: the Boboli Garden and the grand ducal public works administration Malcolm Campbell\u003cbr\u003e 7. Fruit and flower gardens from the neoclassical  and romantic periods in Tuscany Allessandro Tosi\u003cbr\u003e 8. Gardens and parks in Liguria in the second half of the nineteenth century Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno\u003cbr\u003e 9. Sicilian gardens Gianni Pirrone\u003cbr\u003e 10. Jappelli's gardens: 'In dreams begin responsibilities' Raymond W. Gastil\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913090097432,"sku":"9780521033923","price":22.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521033923i.jpg?v=1694965754","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-italian-garden-art-design-and-culture-paperback-9780521033923","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}