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Italian Gardens: A Cultural History Paperback - 2012

Name: Italian Gardens: A Cultural History
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Author: Helena Attlee
ISBN: 9780711233928

by Helena Attlee; Alex Ramsay (Photographer)

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To many of us, the great gardens of Italy seem like paradise on earth. But how much do we know of their history, and the people who created them?
In this ravishing book, illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells their story. She starts with Petrarch - still looking to medieval chronicles for advice on how and when to plant - and goes on to the Renaissance and those first gardens to emerge from architects' plans. Then she describes the great gardens of the Medici; the first botanic gardens; the weird Mannerist gardens and their grottoes followed by the Baroque splendour of Isola Bella and the Villa Aldobrandini; the Neoclassical and Picturesque gardens of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and how, in the twentieth century, expatriates with money to lavish on their villas and gardens brought new delights.

Details

Title Italian Gardens: A Cultural History
Author Helena Attlee; Alex Ramsay (Photographer)
Binding Paperback
Edition First Trade Pape
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Frances Lincoln, London,
Date 2012-09
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780711233928 / 0711233926
Weight 2.77 lbs (1.26 kg)
Dimensions 11.9 x 9.8 x 0.7 in (30.23 x 24.89 x 1.78 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code 712.094

About the author

Helena Attlee is an author and journalist who has made the garden and its history her special subject. Her books include The Gardens of Portugal Italian Gardens: A Cultural History and Gardens of Wales (all publishd by Frances Lincoln). She lectures widely, writes for a wide range of journals and magazines, and leads specialist garden tours. She lives in Presteigne, Powys, with her husband, the photographer Alex Ramsay.YOKO KAWAGUCHI was born in Tokyo and educated in the United States, Canada and Japan. She has lived in the UK for the last twenty years. The author of Serene Gardens: Creating Japanese Design and Detail in the Western Garden, she lectures on Japanese garden history, and has appeared on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour and the BBC World Service.