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Book Synopsis"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best... Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art."-Country Life
Trade Review"This is a major work and, I think, Hunt's best. . . . Once picked up, the book cannot be put down, for it is an exciting exegesis of the continuing Italian influence upon English garden art." *
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Table of ContentsThe Franklin Jasper Walls Lectures
List of Illustrations
Preface to the 1996 Edition
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE. ITALY THE GARDEN OF THE WORLD
1 The Garden on the Grand Tour
2 Classical Ground and Classical Gardens
3 Villa and Vigna
4 Ovid in the Garden
5 Garden and Theatre
6 Cabinets of Curiosity
7 Variety
8 Art and Nature
PART TWO. ENGLAND THE WORLD OF THE GARDEN
9 'My Patterne For A Countrey Seat'
10 'The Way of Italian Gardens'
11 'Palladian' Gardening
Notes
Index
