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Fruitful Spaces and Timeless Architectures: Gardens and Villas in Literature, Culture and Law 9788865486740
Atti di Convegno Universitariae
€27.55 (In Stock)
edited by
Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato, Matteo Nicolini, Enrico Andreoli
The volume approaches villas and gardens as dynamic cultural systems, where artistic, social, and legal discourses intertwine. Drawing on perspectivesfrom British and American literature, art history, legal culture, and cultural studies, the essays collected here explore how these spaceshave served as laboratories of aesthetic innovation, sites of sociability and identity formation, and instruments of legal imagination.
The relationship between the villa and the garden constitutes one of the most enduring and revealing metaphors in Western cultural history. Outlining a complex web of relationships, the villa–garden interface is an intellectual and social construct; there, habitation, authority, art, and collective life converge within a single cultural order. The villa and the garden are complementary yet distinct articulations of culture and space.
The volume mirrors this duality; by juxtaposing historical, literary, artistic, and juridical approaches, it demonstrates that the cultivation of space is inseparable from the cultivation of meaning. The villa-garden interface is thus a metaphor for interdisciplinarity itself: a terrain where nature and culture, art and law, the aesthetic and the ethical, intersect and evolve.
Contributors | Enrico Andreoli, Pascale Antolin, Chiara Battisti, Elisa Bertolini, Daniela Carpi, Myriam Di Maio, Sidia Fiorato, Maria Giulia Giusti Del Giardino, Giorgio Gosetti, Beatrice Melodia Festa, Anja Meyer, Matteo Nicolini, Marco Ongaro, Francesca Piovene, Peter Schneck, Alessandra Zamperini, Laura Zander
Editors | Chiara Battisti is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona (Italy). Sidia Fiorato is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, of the University of Verona (Italy). Matteo Nicolini is Professor of Public Comparative Law at the Department of Law, University of Verona (Italy), and Visiting Lecturer at the Newcastle University Law School (UK). Enrico Andreoli is Researcher of Comparative Public Law at the Department of Law, University of Verona (Italy).
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