Book ID: 114596
Pucci, Angiolo
A cura di Mario Bencivenni e Massimo de Vico Fallani: Volume 5: Suburbio vecchio e nuovo di Firenze. 2019. (Giardini e Paesaggio, 45). 130 figs. XVIII, 440 p. gr8vo. In Italian.
Second episode of the trilogy on the private gardens and vegetable gardens of Florence, begun in the previous volume of this monumental work by Pucci, leads us with a careful narration of horticultural and gardening aspects along an itinerary of 283 episodes placed in the new municipal boundaries extended between 1865 and 1928. A heritage of vegetable gardens, horticultural establishments that increases the richness of the gardens of the ancient center of the "city of flowers", consolidating its literary topos as a garden city and its reputation as the homeland of horticulture.