This book explores the cultural dimensions, the expressive potential, and the changing technologies of greenery in the art of the Italian Renaissance and after.

From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their m

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactu

This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.

This book argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth cen