19 Facts About Italian garden

Italian garden was influenced by Roman gardens and Italian Renaissance gardens.

The Italian garden was a place of peace and tranquillity, a refuge from urban life, and a place filled with religious and symbolic meanings.

The purpose of a Italian garden, according to Pliny, was otium, which could be translated as seclusion, serenity, or relaxation.

Italian Renaissance garden emerged in the late fifteenth century at villas in Rome and Florence, inspired by classical ideals of order and beauty, and intended for the pleasure of the view of the garden and the landscape beyond, for contemplation, and for the enjoyment of the sights, sounds and smells of the garden itself.

The Italian garden has two large terraces, one at the ground floor level and the other at the level of the first floor.

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Italian garden was a scholar of Latin and wrote extensively on education, astronomy and social culture.

The Italian garden was designed to open to the town, the palace and the view.

Italian garden's model was the ancient Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina or ancient Praeneste, and he used the classical ideals of proportion, symmetry and perspective in his design.

Italian garden created a central axis to link the two buildings, and a series of terraces connected by double ramps, modelled after those at Palestrina.

The heart of the Italian garden was a courtyard surrounded by a three-tiered loggia, which served as a theater for entertainments.

On one side of the Italian garden is a most beautiful loggia, at one end of which is a lovely fountain that irrigates the orange trees and the rest of the Italian garden by a little canal in the center of the loggia.

Italian garden's villa had a great circular courtyard, and was divided into a winter apartment and a summer apartment.

The Italian garden was laid out on a gentle slope between the villa and the hill of Monte Morello.

Lower Italian garden had a large marble fountain that was meant to be seen against a backdrop of dark cypresses, with figures of Hercules and Antaeus.

Just above this fountain, in the center of the Italian garden, was a hedge maze formed by cypress, laurel, myrtle, roses and box hedges.

At the far end of the Italian garden and set against a wall, Tribolo created an elaborate grotto, decorated with mosaics, pebbles, sea shells, imitation stalactites, and niches with groups of statues of domestic and exotic animals and birds, many with real horns, antlers and tusks.

Italian garden was made a Cardinal at the age of twenty-nine and became governor of Tivoli in 1550.

Italian garden's chosen architect was Pirro Ligorio, who had been carrying out excavations for Ippolito at the nearby ruins of the ancient Villa Adriana, or Hadrian's Villa, the extensive country residence of the Emperor Hadrian that had numerous elaborate water features.

Outside, the Italian garden was filled with disturbing architectural elements, including a grotto whose entrance represented the mouth of hell, with eyes that showed fires burning inside.