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CHAPTER IX. FRANCE IN THE TIME OF THE RENAISSANCE......389

March of Charles VIII. into Italy; importance for the French Renaissance—Italian artists in France, and
French in Italy—Italian villa and French castle: castle-garden at Amboise; at Blois; at Gaillon—The
French canal-garden—Fontainebleau—Chantilly—Leonardo da Vinci's plan of a castle-garden—Bury—
Dampierre—Valleri—Chambord—"Madrid"—Chenonceaux—Anet—Verneuil—Charleval—Montargis—
Tuileries—Rabelais, Abbey of Thelemites—Bernard Palissy as writer on gardens—Chartreuse of Gaillon;
the earliest hermitage—Garden theorists in Henry the Fourth's time—Olivier de Serres—Claude Mollet—
Du Perac, and the introduction of parterres debroderie—Influence of floral embroidery—Boyceau—Garden
art under Henry IV.: Saint-Germain-en-Laye; Fontainebleau; Luxembourg Gardens; Ruel—Evelyn's
description of French gardens—Rene Rapin's poem on gardens.

CHAPTER X. ENGLAND IN THE TIME OF THE RENAISSANCE......433

Nature of the transition—Later beginning of Renaissance art—James I. of Scotland, description of the
garden at Windsor—Cardinal Wolsey and Hampton Court—Hampton Court under Henry VIII.—Non-
such—Elizabeth's connection with garden art—Kenilworth: description of Laneham and Sir Walter Scott
—Theobalds—Elizabethan garden literature—Introduction of foreign plants: Holinshed's Chronicle—
Gardens of plants—Bacon's essay—Masque in the garden at Whitehall—Garden art under James I.—
Scotch gardens—Exchange of Theobalds for Hatfield House—Ben Jonson—Hatfield House and the first
Lord Salisbury—Montacute—Salomon and Isaac de Caus—Hortus Pembrochianus—Botanic Garden at
Oxford—Moor Park and Sir William Temple—The Revolution and gardening—Fate of Hampton Court,
Nonsuch, and Theobalds—Wimbledon.
 
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