Palazzo del Te, Mantua: giardino segreto

The giardino segreto, or ‘secret garden’, has played an important role in the history of gardening, but its origins are hard to trace and its significance hard to quantify. Neither is it easy to specify precisely what is meant by the term giardino segreto, or even to find written references to it in Renaissance works. In order to form any clear idea of its identity, it is...