Among the most fascinating, best-maintained and least studied of the Renaissance gardens of the Veneto is that of the Villa Brenzone at Punta San Vigilio; it occupies the western portion of a promontory formed by a spur of the foothills of Monte Baldo, which stretches out into the waters of Lake Garda and encloses the bay of Bardolino to the north. Its climate is exceptionally mild. At the centre...