The presence of centuries-old trees in Renaissance gardens is poorly documented. More interesting was their transformation into Tree Houses, as in the villa dedicated to the nymph Arethusa, built by Bernardino Martirano in Leucopetra in the 1530s. Already known for its nymphaeum and as a meeting place for intellectuals and humanists, the villa was purchased by the Prince of Caserta, Giulio Antonio Acquaviva, in 1590, and it was perhaps his son Andrea Matteo who had the tree house built, as described by the Spanish de Salcedo Coronel, who saw it between 1630 and 1632. Similar structures documented in Florence, in the Medici villas, and in Naples, highlight the persistence of cultural exchanges between the two cities, a circuit that had already been active since Aragonese times.
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0005-8766-4356
Titolo del capitolo
La villa di Bernardino Martirano a Leucopetra: da ritrovo di umanisti a luogo di delizie del principe di Caserta
Autori
Lucia Giorgi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0854-3.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
NeaVia La villa napoletana. Antichità e natura tra Rinascimento e Barocco
Sottotitolo del libro
Atti del Convegno Nazionale di studi
Curatori
Maria Gabriella Pezone, Angela Michela Convertini
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
236
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0854-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0853-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0854-3
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0855-0
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919