Talk:Italian Renaissance garden

Spell check
I have just done a spelling check on this excellent article and have the odd query: Ian Spackman (talk) 12:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * We have both ‘giochi d'acgua’, and ‘giochi d'aqua’, while the modern Italian spelling would be ‘giochi d'acqua’. We should probably standardise on one of these, but I’m not sure which.
 * Belvedere Palace. Is it better known as Villa Belvedere, which is what our article on its cortile calls it?
 * Euscalope is word which google can only find in this article: I suspect a typo, but can’t come up with a correction.
 * I am not quite clear about periodisation: we include in our list of other notable Renaissance Italian gardens: Isola Bella (1632), Villa Garzoni in Collodi (1630) and Villa Torrigiani (surviving layout of the garden dates back to 1650 according to our article). Are these perhaps a little late to shelter under the Renaissance umbrella?

All very good points. You're right, Isola Bella and the others are really too late for this article. There should be something separate on Italian Baroque, or whatever one wants to call it. Any suggestions? Let me fix the others and try to find out what Euscalope is, or was meant to be. Thanks for you attention to this article. SiefkinDR (talk) 18:36, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The only one of those gardens I know—and that merely in the sense of having visited it a couple of times—is Isola Bella. I suppose I think of it as Baroque, in a grotesque kind of way: but I am certainly not a reliable source on that. I thought I’d inherited a book on the history of the Italian garden, but I can’t see it on any bookshelf I can readily approach. So while I agree that an article on the later history of gardens in Italy would be a good thing, I fear I can’t help out even with a suggested title. Ian Spackman (talk) 21:26, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

You're right about Euscalope. I was using a French text and mispelled Esculape, but now I see the standard English  is Aesculapius. SiefkinDR (talk) 18:50, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Utens's lunettes
I've just brought a small contribution to the Utens' lunettes, at the end of the article, changing the caption of villa Petraia, which is actually the villa Castello. really good job otherwise!

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