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The Dream of Poliphilo

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Description: The Dream of Poliphilo
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Description: Reading the French Garden: Story and History
The gardens of the Dream of Poliphilo have kept some of the features of the medieval vergiers. Thus, they are always enclosed, protected by walls or tall hedges of tangled trees whose growth has been forced in such a way as to produce artificial twists in the trunks and branches: a development against nature making the screen of greenery more opaque, while offering the visitor the...
PublisherMIT Press
Related print edition pages: pp.53-61
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00099.007

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