Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 · New York : Century · leaf 34
ith cool woodland shade,the proportion between terrace and bowling-green, orbetween the height of a wall and the width of a path.None of these details was negligible to the landscape-architect of the Renaissance: he considered the distri-bution of shade and sunlight, of straight lines of masonryand… … ITALIAN GARDKN-MAGIC gardens will be struck with the way in which the archi-tect broadened and simplified his plan if it faced agrandiose landscape. Intricacy of detail, complicatedgroupings of terraces, fountains, labyrinths and porti-coes, are found in sites where there is no great sweepof…
