Cultivating the Renaissance: A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas - Paperback

by Katie Campbell (Author)

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty.

Author Biography

Katie Campbell is a writer and garden historian. She leads art and garden tours, lectures widely and has taught at Birkbeck, Bristol and Buckingham universities. Her most recent book, British Gardens in Time, accompanied the BBC television series. Earlier books include Paradise of Exiles, Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design and Policies and Pleasances.