"Garden and Grove" is a pioneering study of the English
fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt
studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel
books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with
classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and
metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its
staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what
English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon
their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on
their estates, on their stages, and in their poems.With a wealth of
literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a
new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden
history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a
focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical
ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden
before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed
much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance
models.
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