The Italian Garden

Author : Joan Marble
Publisher : WilliamMr
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0060185740

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Notes from an Italian Garden by Joan Marble Pdf

Thirty years ago journalist Joan Marble and her sculptor husband, Robert Cook, bought an unpromising piece of land near the little hamlet of Canale, north of Rome where the ancient Etruscans once lived. Here they built a house and, more important, set out to start a wonderful garden. All was not easy, however. They faced blank incomprehension from the local inhabitants. "Why do you want to have a garden here?" they were asked. "There's no water, the ground is like cement, it's too cold in winter and too hot in summer, it never rains. . . ." But Joan and Robert's enthusiasm for the land, their ignorance of the obstacles that faced them, their downright obstinacy and the unexpected friends who helped them -- all served to conquer the intransigent terrain. "I fell in love with Etruria one chilly evening in the middle of winter," says Joan. "They were having a New Year's Eve festival in a little town near Campagnano, and a group of local boys dressed in Renaissance costumes were marching in a torchlight parade down the main street. As I stood there in the cold watching the flames lurching to the sky, I realized that I felt very much at home in this ancient place. If ever we should decide to move to the country, this was the kind of place I would choose....." Inspirational, aspirational, enchanting -- this is an account of a passion for a place and an obsession with a garden that will charm all who love Italy, gardening, and life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0711211558

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Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens by Anonim Pdf

In 1903 Edith Wharton was commissioned by Century Magazine to write a series of articles on Italian villas and gardens. She gathered her household together and set off with her husband, her housekeeper and her small dogs on a four-month tour of Italy. Her articles were published in 1904 as Italian Villas and their Gardens. One of the first books to treat the subject of Italian garden architecture seriously, it influenced a generation of garden writers and landscape architects. Nearly 100 years later, photographer and writer Vivian Russell set out on her own odyssey, following Edith Wharton's footsteps around Italy to photograph the best surviving gardens from her book and to tell the story of how each one was made. her lively text describes the patrons and architects who created the gardens and explores their hidden symbolic meaning.

Author : Judith Wade
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UOM:39015055913688

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Italian Gardens by Judith Wade Pdf

Since the earliest Roman settlements, Italians have been expertly cultivating their land into beautiful and creative displays of nature, where terraces and walkways, plants and flowers, water and statuary are combined to provide a unique ad inspiring setting. The Italian garden has greatly evolved throughout the ages, taking on different forms, favoring different plants, and serving different purposes. Early Italian gardens made use of citrus, still regarded as an essential element for its bright fruit and shiny leaves. The ancient art of the topiary was revived in the Renaissance for its drama and elegance, and the refined parterre was developed to spread forth from the great palazzos and provide a dramatic view from their upper stories. Later, in the nineteenth century, the influence of the English garden took hold, with its meandering paths, asymmetrical lakes, and blossoming trees. In "Italian Gardens, author Judith Wade explores more than five hundred years of this tradition, discussing each of these developments and transporting the reader to thirty-seven of the most captivating gardens of Italy. Eleven regions are visited, from Lombardy and Piedmont in the north, to the island of Sicily in the south. Both small and grandiose, historic and contemporary gardens are featured. Travel with Wade to the aristocratic Villa Favorita in Lugano, where an avenue of cypresses welcomes those who approach; the English-style park of Villa Novare Bertani in Verona, with its seventeenth-century wine cellar; the eighteenth-century Avenue of the Camelias at Lucca's Villa Reale, where the American artist John Singer Sargent painted; and great examples of contemporary Italian landscapes, likeLa Mortella in Naples, which boasts more than eight hundred species of rare plants. As "living works of art" these changing displays of nature grow and bloom with the seasons. Smell the roses and lavender, feel the light

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-28
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0521443539

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The Italian Garden by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. 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. The authors are a distinguished group of Italian, American, English and German scholars, with different backgrounds in art history, literature, architecture, planning, and cultural history. The explorations of the subject from these different perspectives illuminate not only their own disciplines, but are concerned to make many fresh connections between garden art and the politics of nationalism, between the art of gardens and urban infrastructure, between cultural movements like freemasonry and site planning, between design and planting materials. The book offers therefore a narrative of the garden by selecting ten high points of its history, which are introduced with a consideration by the volume editor of the fresh challenges to contemporary Italian garden history.

Author : Viana La Place
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0767918258

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My Italian Garden by Viana La Place Pdf

With 125 uncomplicated recipes and illustrated with charming, evocative watercolors, these lyrical passages and images let readers experience the magic of the Italian garden without leaving their kitchens.

Author : David R. Coffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015014085693

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The Italian Garden by David R. Coffin Pdf

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041983704

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Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton Pdf

"Embark on a captivating journey through the enchanting landscapes of Italy with Edith Wharton in 'Italian Villas and Their Gardens.' Penned in the early 20th century, this travel narrative offers readers an insightful exploration of the architectural marvels and lush gardens that adorn the Italian countryside. As Wharton delves into the history, art, and horticulture of these villas, 'Italian Villas and Their Gardens' is more than a travelogue—it's a literary expedition that captures the timeless allure of Italy's cultural and natural beauty. Join Wharton on this literary journey where each page unveils a new facet of Italian elegance, making 'Italian Villas and Their Gardens' an essential read for those captivated by tales of travel and the picturesque charm of Italy."

Author : Claudia Lazzaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 060807831X

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The Italian Renaissance Garden by Claudia Lazzaro Pdf

Author : Steven Desmond,Marianne Majerus
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0711236305

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Gardens of the Italian Lakes by Steven Desmond,Marianne Majerus Pdf

The gardens of the Italian Lakes are a favourite destination for garden lovers and groups. The gardens around Lake Como and Lake Maggiore, in the far north of Italy, are admired throughout the world for their beauty and variety in a magnificent natural location. This book sets out to become the standard work on these gardens as there is nothing of this kind on the market at the moment. It will appeal both to the specialist and enthusiast preparing for a visit. The common factor for all these gardens is their setting in this landscape of exceptional scenery. Lake Como is a deep lake hemmed in like a fjord by towering mountains. Lake Maggiore has more the character of an inland sea, with ferries crossing to the famous island gardens for an afternoon in another world. Both lakes are lined with the towers, villas and grand hotels that speak of a complex history including key events in Italy's struggle to achieve nationhood, inspiration for a string of illustrious writers and composers, and a long line of distinguished visitors. The gardens include: Villa Melzi, Bellagio: an early 19th-century romantic park on the lake shore Villa Carlotta, Cadenabbia: a terraced 17th-century property with woodland Villa del Balbianello, Lenno: a famously picturesque loggia Villa D'Este, Cernobbio: a 16th-century cascade garden with royal connections Villa Cicogna Mozzoni, Bisuschio: an intact 16th-century villa garden Villa Della Porta Bozzolo, Casalzuigno: a rural baroque garden Isola Bella, Stresa: a well-known island garden Isola Madre, Stresa: an island retreat of flowers and birds Villa San Remigio, Pallanza: an Edwardian garden made by two lovers Villa Taranto, Pallanza: one of the world's great woodland gardens

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780812292787

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Garden and Grove by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems. With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.

Author : Mirka Beneš,Michael G. Lee
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0884023672

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Clio in the Italian Garden by Mirka Beneš,Michael G. Lee Pdf

This text examines the long historical development and disciplinary diversity of Italian garden studies.

Author : George Samuel Elgood
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1019213353

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Italian Gardens by George Samuel Elgood Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ann Laras
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780711224902

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Gardens of Italy by Ann Laras Pdf

This inspirational book is an illustrated survey of more than 60 major gardens in Italy, from the lakes north of Milan down to Ravello in the south. They include the Villa Balbianello, Isola Bella, Giardini Giusti, Villa Medici, Villa Gamberaia, La Mortella, Villa Lante, Villa d'Este, Giardini di Ninfa, plus some important modern gardens. All the gardens featured are open to the public.

Author : Geoffrey James,Robert Harbison
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0810934566

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The Italian Garden by Geoffrey James,Robert Harbison Pdf

Author : Frank Hayde
Publisher : Barricade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1569804435

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The Mafia and the Machine by Frank Hayde Pdf

The story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas City, MO. The 'City of Fountains' has popped up in The Godfather, Casino and The Sopranos, but many aren't aware that Kansas City is key in the history of organised crime. Events unfolding in this city affected the fortunes of all the 'families' and shaped the entire underworld. In The Mafia and the Machine, author Frank Hayde ties in every major name in organised crime - Luciano, Bugsy, Lanksy - as well as the corrupt Kansas City police force.