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\r\nA history that is intriguing in both its well-known and lesser-known aspects. The journey winds its way through more than three hundred works and authors, spanning five centuries, and is divided into three parts, spread across three volumes: the first includes and comments on texts and collections of prints from the 16th and 17th centuries, the second is devoted entirely to the 18th century, whilst the last covers the 19th and 20th centuries.
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\r\nThe purpose of this study is therefore the main printed sources dealing with the garden and the concept of the garden, in which the authors\u2019 thoughts \u2012 whether theoretical, technical, descriptive, poetic or philosophical \u2012 expressed in prose, poetry or images, reaches us in its entirety, unlike the real garden, vanished in time, of which we are left with only the archaeological remains of layouts and silent architectural elements, moss-encrusted stones, and fountains that only in a few cases have had water flowing once more thanks to a compassionate hand.
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\r\nBut those gardens were also, and above all, made up of other things: flowers, scents, the music of water, the joy of life, the flight and song of birds\u2026 None of this is preserved in our so-called historic garden, nothing that can convey to us the true sense and meaning, the emotion of poetry, the idea that the creators of those gardens wished to express in their works, which we find instead intact in their writings, in which the authors directly expressed their ideas and the living spirit of their era.
\r\nTHE BOOK BY FRANCO GIORGETTA<\/h2>
\r\nIn the gardens, the physical structures remain, but the central poetic idea \u2012 and its meanings \u2012 quickly faded as the flowers withered, which no one has replaced, nor will replace; as the trees age and die, which no one will replant; and, along with them, as the gentle dance of butterflies and the swift flights of birds come to an end with the first winter. The stones remain, motionless and silent, severed from the complex semantic framework that bound them in a unity of meaning to that which constitutes the garden\u2019s true structure and poetic nature: the plants, the flowers, the elements of nature; and so the garden sinks into age-old silence, stripped of its most significant elements, the symphony of colours fades and the music of the flowers dies away.
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\r\nThe series of books described here is not merely an annotated thematic bibliography; through the comments \u2012 albeit brief \u2012 on each work presented, or the extracts \u2012 unfortunately very brief \u2012 from the texts, it guides the reader along a path that allows one to observe the garden and its meanings \u2012 sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden and mysterious \u2012 and the transformations it has undergone over time, made visible through their primary and authentic sources: the documents to which the authors entrusted the transmission of their thoughts \u2012 be they creative, critical or chronicle-like \u2012 which reach us unaltered, unlike the physical works themselves. Thus, a garden of books emerges within the book, a mirror and double of the real garden, in many cases more concrete and intriguing than the reality of things themselves, which fade away over time.
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