Gardens of the Italian Villas, Signed by Marella Agnelli
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[Signed] Agnelli, Marella. Gardens of the Italian Villas. First Edition. 1987. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is signed on the half title page. Below her signature is a third party gift inscription to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Ashton Hawkins.
Since the passing of C.Z. Guest, Marella Agnelli has been the last of Truman Capote’s famous swans still swimming … and gardening. In this gorgeous book, she presents her own garden at Villar Perosa and many others, including the Renaissance-era grotto at Giardino Giusti, the architectural precision of Villa Pucci, and the Anglo-inspired garden at Harold Acton’s Villa La Pietra. The styles and climates vary—it is astonishing how diverse a country the size of Italy is in regard to terrain. The commonality is their timeless quality—they could be of today or, just easily, two hundred years ago.
“Behind each of these gardens there is a long, long story which interweaves the poetical ideals, the sense of elegance and all the imaginative spirit of the Italian civilization, and at last—who knows?—maybe recreates Paradise lost.”
--Marella Agnelli
Since the passing of C.Z. Guest, Marella Agnelli has been the last of Truman Capote’s famous swans still swimming … and gardening. In this gorgeous book, she presents her own garden at Villar Perosa and many others, including the Renaissance-era grotto at Giardino Giusti, the architectural precision of Villa Pucci, and the Anglo-inspired garden at Harold Acton’s Villa La Pietra. The styles and climates vary—it is astonishing how diverse a country the size of Italy is in regard to terrain. The commonality is their timeless quality—they could be of today or, just easily, two hundred years ago.
“Behind each of these gardens there is a long, long story which interweaves the poetical ideals, the sense of elegance and all the imaginative spirit of the Italian civilization, and at last—who knows?—maybe recreates Paradise lost.”
--Marella Agnelli
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