Locus amoenus
Subtitle: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance
By: edited by Alexander Samson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444361513; 9781444396751; 9781444396775; 9781444396768
Subjects: Horticulture; Social life and customs; Gardening; Intellectual life; History and criticism; European literature; Renaissance; Gardens in literature; Renaissance Gardens; Gardens; History
Other titles: Renaissance studies.
Notes: "Originally published as volume 25, issue 1 of Renaissance studies"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Locus amoenus : gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance / Alexander Samson; title: The world of the Renaissance herbal / Brent Elliott; title: Clinging to the past : medievalism in the English "Renaissance" garden / Paula Henderson; title: River gods : personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy / Claudia Lazzaro; title: Dissembling his art : "Gascoigne's Gardnings" / Susan C. Staub; title: "My innocent diversion of gardening" : Mary Somerset's plants / Jennifer Munroe; title: Outdoor pursuits : Spanish gardens, the "huerto," and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda / Alexander Samson; title: Experiencing the past : the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens / Brian Dix.