by Edith Wharton · Editions Tallandier · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782847345988
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«Villas et Jardins d'Italie» is Edith Wharton's essay on Italian gardens, published by Tallandier in paperback (160 pages, in French).
Edith Wharton travels through Italy, from Lombardy to the Veneto, and describes its villas and gardens. Wharton argues that flowers complement the architectural structure: loggias, terraces, avenues of acacias, cypress groves, waterfalls and grottoes recreate the order of Renaissance gardens, designed by illustrious architects.
The work was originally published as 'Italian Villas and Their Gardens' (1904); this 2009 French edition belongs to the Texto collection, with a translation by Michèle Hechter.
A reference work for lovers of architecture, art history and landscape design, with a tour of classical Italy.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
