Locus 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.
* A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden
history
* Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the
natural world looked and how humans related to their
environment
* The book’s broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary
reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human’s
place within it
* Contributors come from a wide range of experts, including
archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the
Royal Horticultural Society
* Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been
assisted both by archaeology and ideas from green studies and
environmental criticism
* Richly illustrated throughout
Tabella dei contenuti
Notes 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
Circa l’autore
Alexander Samson lectures on early modern Spain and Latin
America at University College London. He is also the co-director of
the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges. His research interests
include Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchange, the marriage of
Philip II and Mary Tudor, and the Golden Age comedia. He is
the editor of The Spanish Match: Prince Charles’s Journey
to Madrid, 1623 (2006) and A Companion to Lope de
Vega (with Jonathan Thacker, 2008).
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