Description
Book SynopsisLocus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment.
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors ix
Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance
Alexander Samson 1
1 The world of the Renaissance herbal
Brent Elliott 24
2 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ garden
Paula Henderson 42
3 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy
Claudia Lazzaro 70
4 Dissembling his art: ‘Gascoigne’s Gardnings’
Susan C. Staub 95
5 ‘My innocent diversion of gardening’: Mary Somerset’s plants
Jennifer Munroe 111
6 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega’s Novelas a Marcia Leonarda
Alexander Samson 124
7 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens
Brian Dix 151
Index 183
