Gardens : an essay on the human condition / Robert Pogue Harrison.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780226317892 (alk. paper)
- 0226317897 (alk. paper)
- SB451 .H37 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index.
The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden," Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens.