Fabrieksprijs Italian Gardens: Romantic Splendor in the Edwardian Age – Helena Attlee

For centuries, the cardinals, popes, and rulers of Italy have devoted themselves to creating vast villa gardens that represent their wealth and power, provide a calm refuge from city life, and showcase lavish plantings and rare flowers. Here, in over two hundred exquisite photographs―taken during the Edwardian era when these historic gardens were at their peak―twenty-two of central Italy’s most ornate and spectacular palace gardens are presented. Italian Gardens reveals the vanished magnificence of the aris…