Parution : Anatole Tchikine (ed.), « The Three Natures. Gardens and Landscapes of the Italian Renaissance », Turnhout, Brepols, 2024
In the middle of the sixteenth century, humanist Jacopo Bonfadio referred to gardens as “a third nature,” as distinct from the landscapes of agriculture and habitation or the primordial if notional wilderness. This idea, newly resonant today in the age of climate change, elevated the art of gardening to a model of collaboration between human and natural worlds. Having no precedent in the literature of antiquity, Bonfadio’s metaphor was the most original Renaissance attempt to...