This text examines the long historical development and disciplinary diversity of Italian garden studies.

In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissa

Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance. Being an

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

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