Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter Cover
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Reframing the Renaissance Garden 1
4. Chapter 1. The Legibility of Landscape: From Fascism to Foucault 17
5. Chapter 2. The Grotesque and the Monstrous 47
6. Chapter 3. A Monstruary: The Excessive, the Deficient, and the Hybrid 82
7. Chapter 4. “Rare and Enormous Bones of Huge Animals”: The Colossal Mode 115
8. Chapter 5. “Pietra Morta, in Pietra Viva”: The Sacro Bosco 135
9. Conclusion: Toward the Sublime 164
10. Notes 173
11. Bibliography 213
12. Index 233
13. Acknowledgments 245