The Italian Garden

List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction: making and writing the Italian garden John Dixon Hunt 1. Gardens in Italian literature during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Lucia Battaglia Ricci 2. Some Medici gardens of the Florentine Renaissance: an essay in post-aesthetic interpretation D. R. Edward Wright 3. Christ the Gardener and the chain of symbols: the gardens around the walls of sixteenth-century Ferrara G. Leoni 4. The gardens of villas in the Veneto from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margherita Azzi Visentini 5. The gardens of the Milanese villeggiatura in the mid-sixteenth century Iris Lauterbach 6. Hard times in baroque Florence: the Boboli Garden and the grand ducal public works administration Malcolm Campbell 7. Fruit and flower gardens from the neoclassical and romantic periods in Tuscany Allessandro Tosi 8. Gardens and parks in Liguria in the second half of the nineteenth century Annalisa Maniglio Calcagno 9. Sicilian gardens Gianni Pirrone 10. Jappelli's gardens: 'In dreams begin responsibilities' Raymond W. Gastil Index

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