GARDENS OF ITALY

by Frances Margaret McGuire ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 15, 1964

Gardens frequently provide the goal, the impetus, for travel in Britain. Here is a book designed to lure the ardent gardener on an Italian tour, a tour that will enrich one's historical background while providing varied phases of the characteristic grand scale gardening of Italy. The author is a practical gardener whose husband was transferred from their native Australia to Italy as Ambassador. A deep consciousness of Italy's complex history is integral to her descriptions of successive types of gardens:- two Papal gardens; two Royal gardens (Caserta, near Naples, and Boboli, Florence); the Pincio and Borghese gardens in Rome, representing the noted patrician gardens of ancient Rome; two famous water gardens- the Villa d'Este in ivoli, and Caetani Castle at Ninfa; three villa gardens in the Lucca and Padua areas; Venetian garden; gardens in the Lakes region; and finally, a Botanic Garden, modern, scientific, at Lake Maggiore. For travelers with a garden bent- and for those who want a new perspective on Italy.

Pub Date: Oct. 15, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow-Barrows

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION