The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665 : a manuscript planting notebook : with a study, transcription, and translation / Ada V. Segre.

Title & Author:

The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665 : a manuscript planting notebook : with a study, transcription, and translation / Ada V. Segre.

Publication:

Description:

107 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm + 4 folded color plans.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks garden and landscape studies

Notes:
Issued in slipcase.
Accompanied by: The manuscript planting notebook (x, 51 [i.e. 102] p. : ill., facsims. ; 32 cm. + 3 facsims. (1 folded)).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-107).
V. 1. [without special title] Introduction -- Plans of the flower gardens -- Planning design -- App. A. Description and transcriptions -- App. B. Plants at San Lorenzo, 1656-1665. ; v. 2. Manuscript planting notebook (reproduction).
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"The two volumes of this book consist of a reproduction of an anonymous Italian gardening notebook in Dumbarton Oaks's Rare Books Collection, and Ada Segre's accompanying study of that notebook. The seventeenth-century notebook records the planting of three flower gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, Italy. ...
Segre's research reveals that this challenging document is the work of two separate gardeners, who each mainted the notebook and the garden in successive years: the notebook can be read in two different directions and contains lists of all the plants and bulbs that were planted, as well as sketches and plans of the garden's various planting beds"--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0884023028 (alk. paper)
9780884023029 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Gardening Italy Piacenza 17th century.
Gardens Italy Piacenza 17th century.
Jardinage Italie Plaisance 17e siècle.
Jardins Italie Plaisance 17e siècle.
Gardening.
Gardens.
Jardins Italie Plaisance (Italie) 17e siècle.
Italy Piacenza.

Added entries:

Segre, Ada V.
Dumbarton Oaks garden and landscape studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249176
Call No.: BIB 178756
Status: Available

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