Italian Gardens: Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age

by Helena Attlee

For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs--taken during the Edwardian era when these historic gardens were at their peak--twenty-two of central Italy's most ornate and spectacular palace gardens are presented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580932312
• ISBN13: 9781580932318
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.2" x 12.2"