The Best Gardens in Italy: A Traveller's Guide [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

McLeod, Kirsty

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0711231834 ISBN 13: 9780711231832

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Italy's gardens speak to us all. In the history of gardening they are the bridge between our world and the ancient world. Their harmony, symmetry and serenity are at once inimitable and universally copied.

During the past few years Italy has awoken to a realization of its gardens. In a gardening renaissance, interesting new gardens are being created all over Italy, and there has been exemplary restoration of some historic gardens.

In this pioneering new book, Kirsty McLeod and Primrose Bell celebrate over a hundred of the finest Italian gardens open to the public. They take the reader with them on a journey to these gardens: they explore their history and context, and we meet the owners, hear the stories behind the gardens, and learn how they were made and how they are maintained.

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Recensione:

The Guide' luxuriates in remote havens of exotics, and cabinets of archhitectural delights, all endearingly photographed by Primrose Bell. McLeod has authority, she is a generous and unobtrusive guide allowing her subjects to speak. --Spectator

Offers a rich diversity of garden styles and settings to delight the reader. Kirsty McLeod's evocative commentary and Primrose Bell's beautiful photography will take you to such stunning - and renowned - locations as Villa d'Este on lake Como, the Giardino di Boboli in Florence and Villa Rufolo in Ravello. --Italia!

The guide I will be lugging in my suitcase on all future visits to Italian gardens. --Stephen Lacey, Daily Telegraph

Editor's choice: It will remain the definitive guide for everyone with an interest in garden history, whether they intend to travel there in person or just admire from the comfort of an armchair. Absolutely superb! --Good Book Guide

A labour of love based on her years of travel all over the penninsula. --Financial Times

With its elegant fusion of graceful prose and beautiful prose and beautiful photography, this marvellously readable book is a treat for experienced gardeners and novices discovering for the first time the infinite riches of Italian gardening... A real delight. --Daily Mail

Here is a book that opens the doors to enjoyment of the Italian garden. It will also illuminate all the flowed out of Italy in the Renaissance - a fresh vision of architecture and gardening, art, thought and science that was hugely influential in Britain and across Europe - and still is. --Topiarius

L'autore:

Historian and biographer Kirsty McLeod is the author of many books including A Passion for Friendship: Sibyl Colefax and her Circle; Battle Royal: Edward VIII and George VI; and The Last Summer: May to September 1914. She is also past Chairman of the English Heritage Historic Parks and Gardens Panel, set up to advise English Heritage on England's historic gardens.

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• Editore: Frances Lincoln Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0711231834
• ISBN 13: 9780711231832
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 262