The Vatican gardens
Subtitle: an architectural and horticultural history
By: by Alberta Campitelli ; translated from the Italian by Ceil Friedman.
Contributors: Friedman, Ceil.
Edition: 1st English ed.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780789210487
Subjects: Gardens -- Vatican City -- History; Gardens, Italian -- Vatican City -- History
Notes: Translated from Italian.
Table of contents: title: Origins and first inventions: from Nicholas III (1277-80) to Nicholas V (1447-55); title: The Belvedere of Innocent VIII (1484-92) and the Courtyard Garden-Theater of Julius II (1503-13) and Donato Bramante; title: The Secret Garden of Paul III (1534-49) and the intervention of Jacopo Meleghino; title: La Casina of Pius IV (1559-65) and the Giardino dei Semplici; title: The first part of 1600: the fountains of Paul V and Johannes Faber, "gardener" extraordinaire; title: The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: garden practices and botanical innovations; title: The nineteenth century: French occupation, English taste, and the "gardener" popes; title: The new image of the state-town: gardens, fountains, buildings, and monuments; title: Papal holidays and the villa in Castel Gandolfo.