The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665
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"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.
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.
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