Abstract:
Antiquity as example : Rome in the time of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo -- The poetics of the collection : Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas" -- Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome -- The virtues of the papal collector : Paul II and Sixtus IV -- Pomponio Leto and the academic garden -- The era of collecting, 1480-1527 -- Epilogue: the sack of Rome and the hanging garden of Cardinal Andrea della Valle -- Catalogue of the collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-423) and index.HOLLIS no. 012214655
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