Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens

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A classic of garden literature reinterpreted
Edith Wharton's lifelong love affair with Italy began at the age of four, when her parents took her to Rome for a year. She loved Italian art, landscape, and architecture, spoke the language fluently, and was a prodigious reader of Italian poetry and literature. But it was her American pioneering spirit that rose to meet the challenge offered by Century Magazine to write a series of articles to accompany a set of paintings by Maxfield
Parrish of Italian villas and gardens. She collected her household together, and husband, housekeeper, and small dogs all set off on a four-month exploration 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 became a groundbreaking work that influenced a generation of garden writers and landscape architects.
Nearly one hundred years later Vivian Russell set out on her own odyssey,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A classic of garden literature reinterpreted
Edith Wharton's lifelong love affair with Italy began at the age of four, when her parents took her to Rome for a year. She loved Italian art, landscape, and architecture, spoke the language fluently, and was a prodigious reader of Italian poetry and literature. But it was her American pioneering spirit that rose to meet the challenge offered by Century Magazine to write a series of articles to accompany a set of paintings by Maxfield
Parrish of Italian villas and gardens. She collected her household together, and husband, housekeeper, and small dogs all set off on a four-month exploration 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 became a groundbreaking work that influenced a generation of garden writers and landscape architects.
Nearly one hundred years later 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 teU the story of how and why each one was made. Her lively text describes the patrons and architects who created the gardens and explores their hidden symbolic meaning. Russell includes the insights of Wharton and other literary garden visitors, such as Charles Dickens and Henry James, while her superb photographs capture the atmosphere of the gardens in winter and summer.
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