Appendix II: Plant Costs

Coffin, David R.

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Appendix II: Plant Costs

David R. Coffin

Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome

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David R. Coffin

PublisherPrinceton University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00055.020

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Appendix II: Plant Costs

1. 1561 March 16

. . . sei olmi grossi à 7 b. ½ l’uno, 50 vite saluatiche, e 50 vite Albe à b. 2½. l’una, 300 piante di lauro à 4 quattrini la pianta et b. 40 p una soma d’edera

1561 March 18

. . . p il prezzo di olmi 172 à un carlin l’uno

ASM, Camera Ducale, Amministrazione dei Principi, Registro 958, fols. 21v and 22.

2. 1562 February 14

olmi n.° 70 a b. 6 l’uno

Piante dj Zafronj n.° cento a b. 2 l’uno

n.° 264 cerase marine a qtri 4 l’una

28 ridalpe a b. 2 l’una

Ibid., Registro 895, fol. 9.

3. 1566 March 14

lauri 763 a b. tre luno . . . lentaginea n° 1300 a b. 40 il cento . . . olmi 75 a carlino luno . . . Matriselua rose in mazziero a b. 15 luno . . . ellera fassi 10 a b. 10 luno . . . Melacci 13 a b. 6 luno . . . cianfron piedi 20 a b. 2½ luno . . . Gielsomini some una b. 17

Ibid., Registro 898, unfoliated.

4. 1568 January 26

a coto dellj 300 olmj . . . sc. 12

Ibid., Registro 995, fols. 11 and 15.

5. 1568 February 18

102 castagni for 4.74 sc.

1568 March 13

per il prezzo de 51 Abbetti sc. 11.50

per prezzo d’olmi 70 a 7 b. luno, lauri 380 a b. 25 il c.° . . . sc. 17.40

See D. R. Coffin, The Villa d’Este at Tivoli, Princeton, N.J., 1960, p. 20, n. 19.

6. 1608 March 20

p n.° 56 piante di melangoli . . . sc. 19.50

ASM, Camera Ducale, Fabbriche e Villeggiature, Busta 71, Tivoli, no. 1, Villeggiatura sotto Alessandro d’Este, Libro di spese 1606–1614, fol. 5r.

7. 1616 March 18

piante n. 90 di melangole a baiocchi 45 l’una, e piante n. 10 della china [chinchona tree] a baiocchi 35 l’una

See Il Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, 1974, p. 253.

8. 1645 June 25

piante 65 di cedro a b. 10

1645 November 12–December 17

sc. 30 for 100 melangoli

1645 December 17–31

sc. 6 . . . per arra de mortella

sc. 10 . . . a conto di piante 200 di mortella

sc. 2.40 . . . per some 6 di spini

See J. Garms, Quellen aus dem Archiv Doria-Pamphilj zur Kunsttätigkeit in Rom unter Innocenz X, Rome and Vienna, 1972, p. 208, no. 1015, and p. 226, nos. 1092 and 1095.

9. Undated, but ca. 1650–1670

Nota di quello si puote spendera nelle

piantate il più alto prezzo

Piante buone, e mezzane di celsi, delle quali se ne trouerà quante se ne uuolo di buone, e mezzane à dieci sette baiochi la pianta.

A piantarse à fosse aperto à terra soda un giulio la canna.

A fossette di cinque palmi per ogni uerso à piantarle, e ricanzarle due carlini l’una.

A spinarle, e ligarle tre baochi l’una.

A darle à tutte sue spese à pianta uiua per tre anni cinque giuli la pianta.

L’olmi la pianta un giulio l’uno.

Le fosse et altre spese come li celsi.

A dar l’olmi à pianta uiua quatro giuli la pianta. E credo che di questi ci auantaggiaremo.

BAV, Chigi Ms M.VIII.LX. fol. 205.

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BOOKGardens and Gardening in Papal Rome

David R. Coffin

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00055

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19200

From the late Middle Ages, when it embodied spirituality, through the end of the eighteenth century, when it offered pleasurable surroundings for banquets, poetry readings, and amorous pursuits, the garden figured prominently in everyday Roman life. In this fascinating history, David Coffin provides a wealth of information on how Italian gardeners worked with the elements of color, fragrance, sound, shade, architecture, sculpture, and wildlife to achieve a wide variety of sensual effects. In so doing he presents the stages of evolution in classic Italian gardening, which was replaced in the late eighteenth century by the more naturalistic English style. Coffin first considers the role of cloistered gardens in the Middle Ages and shows how they were later incorporated as private spaces within the larger Renaissance gardens. Describing the introduction of sculptural collections and waterworks into gardens during the sixteenth century, he explores some of the rich, often complicated, iconographical programs that emerged. The extension of garden parks in the seventeenth century marks the decline of architecture in landscaping and the advent of landscape design as a dominant factor. Throughout this book Coffin concentrates on the garden as a site for entertainment and on the development of design components that eventually permitted gardens to be freely open to the public.

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David R. Coffin

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Print publication date January 1991 (out of print)

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