La Foce: A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany

by Benedetta Origo, John Dixon Hunt, Laurie Olin

Book Overview

The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens, Origo and her husband, Antonio, purchased the dilapidated villa in 1924,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812235932
• ISBN13: 9780812235937
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.4" x 10.3"