Overview

This collection of essays explores the role of gardens in early modern academies and, conversely, the place of what might be called 'academic culture' in early modern gardens. While studies of botanical gardens have often focused on their association with a research institution, the intention of this book is deliberately broader, seeking to explore the interactions and intersections between the built environment of the early modern garden and the more or less organised social and intellectual life it supported. As such, the book contributes to the intersection of several fields of research: garden history, literary history, architectural history and socio-political history, and considers the garden as a site of performance that requires an intermedial approach.

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Author:   Denis Ribouillault
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   94
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004517530

ISBN 10:   9004517537
Pages:   454
Publication Date:   23 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Note on the Editor Notes on the Contributors Note on the Translations 1 Introduction: “Atque inter silvas Academi quaerere verum” – Early Modern Gardens and the Academic Ideal  Denis Ribouillault 2 The Green World of the Accademia Pontaniana: Conviviality, Horticulture, and Arcadia  George Brocklehurst 3 Pomponio Leto and His Garden: New Evidence on Its Archaeological Context  Alessia Dessì 4 Horti Colotiani: the Gardens of Angelo Colocci, the Casino del Bufalo and the Birthday of Rome  Giorgio Mangani 5 The Unknown “Pleasure Grounds” of the Cardinals Colonna at the Abbey of Subiaco  Tiziana Checchi 6 The Poetic Fortune of the Nymphaeum of Villa Giulia (with New Poems by Giovan Francesco Commendone)  Denis Ribouillault 7 The “Academic” Plane Tree in Early Modern Gardens  Denis Ribouillault 8 Academies and Gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Marcel in Paris (1550–1578)  Laurent Paya 9 Festive Erudition: the Garden of Laurentius Scholz von Rosenau in Breslau (Wrocław) 1588–1599  Christiane Lauterbach 10 Botany and Academy: the Gardens of Cardinal del Monte in Late Sixteenth–Century Rome  Alessandro Spila 11 Vitaliano Borromeo’s Academy of the Isola Bella  Sergio Monferrini 12 Academicians and Their Gardens in Genoa in the First Half of the 17th Century  Lauro Magnani 13 A Place Both Real and Imagined: Play, Performance and Narrative in the Gardens of the Arcadian Academy in Rome  Katrina Grant 14 The Milanese Colony of the Arcadian Academy  Maria Cristina Loi Index Nominum

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“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.

Author Information

Denis Ribouillault is Professor of Early Modern Art History at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His research focuses on Renaissance villa culture, cultural landscapes and gardens, and the intersection of art, science, and literature. He has received numerous fellowships and has been a Visiting Professor at the Università Ca'Foscari (2018), the Università del Salento (2021), the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (Panofsky Professorship, 2024), and the Université de Bordeaux (Chaire Montaigne, 2024). His most recent books include Jardiner / Gardening (Intermediality 35 (2020)) and The Villa Barbaro at Maser. Science, Philosophy and the Family in Venetian Renaissance Art (2023).

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