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Physic Garden, Pisa (Orto botanico di Pisa)

Summary

A botanical garden operated by the University of Pisa in Pisa, Italy.  The garden was established in 1544 under Cosimo I de’ Medici as the first university botanical garden in Europe, and entrusted to the famous botanist Luca Ghini of Imola. In 1563 the garden was relocated from its original riverside location (now the Medicean Arsenal) to one near the convent of Santa Marta, and in 1591 again moved to its third and current location.

From these early times, the garden has contained a gallery of natural objects (now Pisa’s Museo di Storia Naturale), a library (now part of the university library), and portraits of its directors throughout the centuries. It also includes one of the earliest iron-framed hothouses built in Italy. — Wikipedia.

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Garden of Pierre Morin, Paris

Summary

John Evelyn visited this garden in early 1644 and described it – and Monsieur Morin – as:

His garden is of an exact oval figure, planted with cypress, cut flat and set as even as a wall: the tulips, anemones, ranunculuses, crocuses, etc., are held to be of the rarest, and draw all the admirers of that kind to his house during the season. He lived in a kind of hermitage at one side of his garden, where his collection of porcelain and coral, whereof one is carved into a large crucifix, is much esteemed. He has also books of prints, by Albert [Durer], Van Leyden, Callot, etc. His collection of all sorts of insects, especially of butterflies, is most curious; these he spreads and so medicates, that no corruption invading them, he keeps them in drawers, so placed as to represent a beautiful piece of tapestry.

In his plant catalogue, ,Pierre Morin gives the location of the garden as near the The Holy Innocents‘ Cemetery or Cimetière des Saints-Innocents.

Sketch of the garden of Pierre Morin in the faubourg St Germain by Richard Symonds. 1649. BL Harley Ms 1278 f.81v

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Fontainebleau gardens

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Detail from “Portrait des Chasteaux Royaux de Sainct Germain en Laye [on sheet with] Portrait de la Maison Royale de Fontaine Belleau” by Braun & Hogenberg, 1617. From Sanderus maps, with permission.

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  • Wikipedia.

Jetto

Summary

“An ornamental jet of water emitted under pressure from a fountain or pipe” – Oxford English Dictionary.

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  • OED

Bois de Vincennes

Summary

The Bois de Vincennes, located on the eastern edge of Paris, is the largest public park in the city.

Described by Evelyn on 8 Febrary 1643 as

“The Bois de Vincennes has in it a square and noble castle, with magnificent apartments, fit for a royal court, not forgetting the chapel. It is the chief prison for persons of quality. About it there is a park walled in, full of deer; and in one part there is a grove of goodly pine trees.”

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Place des Vosges (Palais Royal )

Summary

Called the “Palais Royal” by Evelyn, the Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris and one of the finest in the city. It is located in the Marais district.

“Dessin des pompes et magnificences du Carousel faict en la place royalle à Paris le V. VI. VII. d’Aprvil 1612” by Claude Chastillon (1560–1616).1612.

Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henry IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m × 140 m) – Evelyn calls it “a fair quadrangle of stately palaces” – it embodied the first European program of royal city planning. It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henry II was wounded and died. Catherine de Medicis had the Gothic complex demolished, and she removed to the Louvre Palace.

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Albury Park, Surrey

Summary

Albury Park is a country park and historic country house (Albury Park Mansion) in Surrey, England. It covers over 150 acres (0.61 km2); within this area is the old village of Albury, which consists of three or four houses and a church.

“Albury (State 2)”- by Wenceslaus Hollar (circa 1645)

From a footnote by Austin Dobson:

“Albury Park, Guildford, Surrey, at this date the seat of the Howards. From the Howards it passed to the Finches, and in 1819 was bought by Mr. Drummond. It now belongs to the Duke of Northumberland, to whose family it came by marriage with the Drummonds.”

Gardens

The grounds of Albury Park were laid out by Evelyn between 1655 and 1677.  The London’s lost garden website gives a comprehensive report on the current state of the gardens.

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  • Wikipedia for background, image.
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