Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy : Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture.

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Theatricality, a View from the Landscape
2. Gardens of the Gods: Classical Revival, Intermedi, Early Opera and the Idea of Nature
3. The (Singing) Figure in the Landscape
4. Triumph over Nature: Machines and Meraviglia on the Seventeenth-century Stage
5. The Theatre in the Landscape: Pliny to Pratolino
6. The Garden as Stage, the Visitor as Performer
7. Stages without Actors: Theatres of Sculpture, Water and Flowers
8. Performing in the Parrhasian Grove: Green Theatres and the Academies
Bibliography
Index.