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    Jan 03, 2023 3 minutes

    GRANDI GIARDINI ITALIANI: THE ESSENCE OF PARADISE

    by Judith Wade, Delfina Rattazzi and Caterina Napoleone

    Franco Maria Ricci, £67 ISBN 979-1280294050

    This magnificent celebration of the work of Grandi Giardini Italiani serves as both a history of Italian gardens and a visitors’ guide.

    Helena Attlee is a freelance writer.

    Italy had shown little or no interest in its gardens for years by the time Judith Wade founded Grandi Giardini Italiani (Great Italian Gardens) in 1997. The rate of attrition had been high since the Second World War made luxuries such as gardeners unaffordable, and important historic gardens all over Italy had been sliding ever closer to

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