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Elgood’s Italian Gardens, New York, 1907; and Georges Gromort’s Jardins d’Italie, Paris, 1922. 4 An example of the latter is Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond’s The Old Gardens of Italy: How to Visit Them (with Illustrations from Her Photographs), New York and London, 1912. Other examples of the genre are Edith Wharton (1862–1937), Italian Villas and Their Gardens, New York, 1904; Gabriel Faure (1877–1962), Les jardins de Rome, Grenoble, 1923; and Rose Standish Nichols, Italian Pleasure Gardens, New York, 1928.
Christian Huelsen enlarged the subject in 1917 with an exhaustive, fundamental study of several sixteenth-century antique sculpture gardens in Rome in the Abhandlungen of the Heidelberg Academy, followed by Luigi Dami’s account of the Quirinal garden at Rome in the Bollettino d’arte of 1919. Much later, in 1930, a delightful two-part article by Gnoli on the literary gardens in the Rome of Pope Leo X appeared posthumously in Nuova Antologia. 31 The Study of the History of the Italian Garden Contemporary with Gnoli’s first article Edgar Williams, a young American landscape architect at the American Academy at Rome from 1910 to 1912, made drawings of the plan, elevations, and section of the famous gardens of the Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore which were published in the periodical Landscape Architecture in July 1914.
22 This shift would also aid the opening of scholarly eyes in future to other Italian regions, such as Lombardy, the Piedmont, the Marche, and Emilia Romagna. The shift from Roman villas to those of northern Italy was not just a geographical one. Beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, a group of Italian and German art and architectural historians, led by their Venetian colleagues, began to consider the pre-Palladian and Palladian villas in social and economic terms. Here Georgina Masson, the English expert on Italian gardens, was a pioneer.