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For published information on Giovanni Rucellai's Quaracchi, see A Florentine Patrician and his Palace: Studies by F.W. Kent et al (London, 1981). The Villa Quaracchi and its garden, in Florence, was built C1459 and described in the diary of its owner, Giovanni Rucellai. Gothein attributed the design to Leon Battista Alberti abecause it seems to follow the principles of his De Re Aedificatoria (1452). The garden had a central axis, compartments and a mount.  Claudia Lazzaro (in  The Italian renaissance garden New Haven:Yale University Press, 1990, page 80) remarks that the 'constructions of wood and vegetation... had no apparent relationship with the design'.  The garden of Rucellai's Quaracchi had mont which was 4.75m high and 59m in diameter. It was 'planted with first, juniper, arbutus, laurel, Spanish broom, and box' (Lazzaro p. 56)

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  • over 1 year ago Mr Ulf GrÃ¥berg, Sweden said

    Villa Quaracchi still stands in this area after which it was named. Just north of the Arno and west of Florence centre in the Via San Buonaventura. The Villa has also been known as "Lo Specchio", The Mirror. After it had been used for various purposes, among them as a broom factory, it was bought by the order of Saint Frances and renovated in 1887("The Friars av Quaracchi").
    From 1966 it is part of the university of Florence and houses a part of the agricultural faculty.
    Of the garden is not a trace to be found today alas.
    http://wikimapia.org/16538795/it/Ex-Collegio-Francescano-Internazionale-di-San-Bonaventura

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