Italian Garden Design Books

This collection 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.

Italian garden design books. The well tempered garden by christopher lloyd is available in paperback on amazon. He argued that a villa should both be looked at and a. The authors are a distinguished group of italian american english and german scholars with.

Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. The italian garden is a beneficial addition to the list of books about italy and its protracted garden tradition philip pregill landscape journal book description. A collection of ten interdisciplinary essays on the history and diversity of the italian garden.

The italian garden is part restoration story part vicarious travel tale and along with chapters on the history of the italian garden and the renaissance and prato s troubled history with its neighbours contains a completely fascinating account of how the discovery fifty years ago of a series of neglected and hidden fifteenth century. Our expert gardening advisor karen thurber adds if you like the feel of a formal italian garden but don t have the time to maintain the hedges that create the formal beds consider using raised beds to achieve the same feeling. Christopher lloyd is best known as the creator of the mesmerizing gardens at great dixter where he was born in 1921 but he was a prolific writer too.

The first renaissance text to include garden design was de re aedificatoria the ten books of architecture by leon battista alberti 1404 1472.