This fascinating two-volume set includes a photographic
reproduction of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian gardener's
notebook from Dumbarton Oaks's Rare Books Collection.
The notebook is a record of the planting of three flower gardens
at San Lorenzo. It is now believed that the gardens were created
for Margherita de' Medici Farnese, duchess of Parma and Piacenza.
The notebook provides insight into the creation of a
seventeenth-century garden, from identifying flowers to planning
flowerbeds. In turn, these sketches reveal the gardener's own
intentions and reflections on the designs.
Ada Segre's accompanying study of the notebook is a
groundbreaking example of garden archaeology. She considers its
provenance and connection to the world of the duchess and her
gardens. Segre also evaluates the importance of the manuscript as
an object and as a source of information on garden design and
practice in Italy during the mid-seventeenth century. Three
computer-generated recreations of the garden's planting beds are
included with the reproduction.
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