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Item Number: 128049
Title: Petrarch’s Two Gardens : Landscape and the Image of Movement
Author: Tronzo, William
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781599102719
Description: New York: Italica Press, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 238pp., 78 color and b&w illus. Summary: The four essays that make up this book take as their subject gardens of the Middle Ages and Renaissance whose traces are still visible, in varying degrees, at sites in Italy and France: Palermo and Rome, the Vaucluse and Hesdin. Traces only, as these gardens have long since been emptied of the life whose insistent motion gave them shape and in the intervening years have been transformed in such a way as to entangle and obscure significant moments of their past. Yet these moments were also refracted in other media — images and texts — that may be used to bring the past into focus again in the landscape itself. This book attempts precisely this. Its modus operandi is an experiment, crossing the constitutive acts of the discipline of archaeology — excavation and reconstruction — with the protocols of the history of art, as it will involve, in a continuous circuit, both the identification and the interpretation of salient witnesses of the past.
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