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Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome Hardcover - 1991
by Coffin, David R.
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- Title Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome
- Author Coffin, David R.
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1991
- ISBN 9780691040899
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Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome
by David R. Coffin
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4to, 285pp, illustrated throughout. Very good+ with previous owner's pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Pictorial good+ dust jacket with some edge wear/ sunning . 'From the late Middle Ages, when it embodied spirituality, through the end of the eighteenth century, when it offered pleasurable surroundings for banquets, poetry readings, and amorous pursuits, the garden figured prominently in everyday Roman life. In this lavishly illustrated history, David Coffin provides a wealth of information on how Italian gardeners worked with the elements of color, fragrance, sound, shade, architecture, sculpture, and wildlife to achieve a wide variety of sensual effects. In so doing he presents the stages of evolution in classic Italian gardening, which was replaced in the late eighteenth century by the more naturalistic English style. Coffin first considers the role of cloistered gardens in the Middle Ages and shows how they were later incorporated as private spaces within the larger Renaissance gardens.…
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Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome.
by COFFIN, David R.
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Princeton:: Princeton University Press,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0691040893 . Black and white illustrations throughout. First printing. Near fine in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. ; 285 pages .
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