Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens write by Vivian Russell. This book was released on 1997. Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This elegant new volume combines Edith Wharton's sensual prose tour of Italy's most gorgeous gardens with stunning photographs that capture these lush spaces in all their past, present, and enduringly haunting beauty. Wharton devotees, gardeners, and Italophiles alike will delight in following in the writer's turn-of-the-century footsteps. 30 historical bandw photos. 180 modern color photos.
Notes from an Italian Garden
Notes from an Italian Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes from an Italian Garden write by Joan Marble. This book was released on 2001-04-10. Notes from an Italian Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Italian Renaissance Garden
The Italian Renaissance Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian Renaissance Garden write by Claudia Lazzaro. This book was released on 1990-01-01. The Italian Renaissance Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Italian Garden
The Italian Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian Garden write by John Dixon Hunt. This book was released on 1996-11-28. The Italian Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Italian Garden
The Italian Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian Garden write by David R. Coffin. This book was released on 1972. The Italian Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
