{"id":10848,"date":"2015-10-21T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2015-10-21T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T10:16:22","slug":"tivoli-companiontim-cawkwell-book-review-by-tom-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/tivoli-companiontim-cawkwell-book-review-by-tom-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tivoli Companion,Tim Cawkwell &#8211; book review by Tom Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10850\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10850\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell.jpg\" alt=\"A Tivoli Companion Tim Cawkwell\" width=\"1200\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell-1024x793.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tivoli_hadrian_este_gregoriana_gardens_cawkwell-624x483.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Tivoli Companion Tim Cawkwell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tim Cawkwell\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tivoli-Companion-Tim-Cawkwell\/dp\/151205626X\/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_pap?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1436788546&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Tim+Cawkwell\">78-page book <em>Tivoli Companion<\/em><\/a> is, scholarly, enjoyable and puzzling in equal measure. The puzzle, for a reviewer, is the intended audience. I guess I know more about Tivoli than most general readers but a good deal less than those with specialist knowledge of Italian garden history. So perhaps the guide was written for people like me. But, are there many other people like me with an in-between knowledge of Tivoli?<br \/>\nThe title A Tivoli Companion is well-chosen, reminding one of Georgina Masson\u2019s Companion Guide to Rome. The Introduction is explicit that \u2018this is not a guidebook that will tell you where to stay and what to eat\u2019 but also states that \u2018Tivoli is a rich enough place to have its own guidebook\u2019. So is it a \u2018guidebook\u2019? Not really. The contents page identifies the main section of the text as an \u2018Essay\u2019 and this is the truth of the matter. It is akin to an extended magazine article. About half the text is about Tivoli\u2019s three famous gardens: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/villa_adriana_hadrians_villa_garden\">Hadrian\u2019s Villa<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/villa_deste\">Villa d\u2019Este<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/tivoli_gorge\">Parco Villa Gregoriana<\/a>, with their history and character dealt with rather glancingly. The author\u2019s photographs tell us more but not as much as they could have done with more consistent and informative captioning. The book has only one plan. Hand-drawn and with almost unreadable labelling. But the information is useful and interesting: \u2018Tivoli and R. Ariene in 17th century showing channel dug under the town to the NE corner of Villa d\u2019Este\u2019.<br \/>\nJust possibly, the puzzling aspect of the Companion is explained by the information about the author on p.78. Most of his writing has been about cinema. His literary approach is filmic. I am pretty confident that Calkwell\u2019s Companion is, to date, the most extensive discussion of Tivoli\u2019s graffiti in the English language,<\/p>\n<p><em>A Tivoli Companion<\/em> Tim Cawkwell CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cawkwell\u2019s 78-page book Tivoli Companion is, scholarly, enjoyable and puzzling in equal measure. The puzzle, for a reviewer, is the intended audience. I guess I know more about Tivoli than most general readers but a good deal less than those with specialist knowledge of Italian garden history. So perhaps the guide was written for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10857,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}