Italian Gardens

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In this ravishing book, illustrated with contemporary paintings, drawings and prints as well as photographs of the gardens today, Helena Attlee tells thei story of Italian gardens. She starts with Petrarch 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 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, villas and gardens brought new delights.

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