Chanteloup, the renaissance garden of the Villeroys : an initiation to humanism / Matthieu Dejean and Perrine Galand-Willemen ; introduction by Emmanuel Lurin.

By:

Dejean, Matthieu [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ars longa (Geneva, Switzerland) ; 9.Publisher: Genève : Librairie Droz, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical tables, map, plans, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:

text
still image

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9782600062305
2600062300

Other title:

Initiation to humanism

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LOC classification:

SB470.55.F8 D45 2022

Contents:

Chanteloup and the renaissance gardens -- Descriptions of Chanteloup -- Edition of "Cantilupum".

Summary: The garden of the Chanteloup castle (Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon), owned by the Villeroy-Neufville family, was one of the wonders of the French Renaissance, which could compete with the great Italian gardens of the time. Perrine Galand-Willemen and Matthieu Dejean revive this exceptional artistic creation in its historical and intellectual context. The authors have studied several travel guides and a long Latin poem entitled Cantilupum (Paris, 1587; 1588), which describes the meanders of the garden. Cantilupum was written by Madeleine de L'Aubespine-Villeroy (1546-1596), wife of Secretary of State Nicolas IV de Neufville-Villeroy, lady of honour of Catherine de' Medici, woman of letters whom Ronsard considered his ?spiritual daughter?. The garden of Chanteloup housed an extraordinary set of topiaries (carved shrubs), automata, statues, models and fountains, which recreated Roman civilization and offered an initiatory, stoic-Christian course to the walker.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Circulating Books	Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	New Books	SB470.55.F8 D45 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3182700023010

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Chanteloup and the renaissance gardens -- Descriptions of Chanteloup -- Edition of "Cantilupum".

The garden of the Chanteloup castle (Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon), owned by the Villeroy-Neufville family, was one of the wonders of the French Renaissance, which could compete with the great Italian gardens of the time. Perrine Galand-Willemen and Matthieu Dejean revive this exceptional artistic creation in its historical and intellectual context. The authors have studied several travel guides and a long Latin poem entitled Cantilupum (Paris, 1587; 1588), which describes the meanders of the garden. Cantilupum was written by Madeleine de L'Aubespine-Villeroy (1546-1596), wife of Secretary of State Nicolas IV de Neufville-Villeroy, lady of honour of Catherine de' Medici, woman of letters whom Ronsard considered his ?spiritual daughter?. The garden of Chanteloup housed an extraordinary set of topiaries (carved shrubs), automata, statues, models and fountains, which recreated Roman civilization and offered an initiatory, stoic-Christian course to the walker.