Locus Amoenus

Alexander Samson lectures on early modern Spain and Latin America at University College London. He is also the co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges. His research interests include Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchange, the marriage of Philip II and Mary Tudor, and the Golden Age comedia. He is the editor of The Spanish Match: Prince Charles’s Journey to Madrid, 1623 (2006) and A Companion to Lope de Vega (with Jonathan Thacker, 2008).

• Notes on contributors ix Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the RenaissanceAlexander Samson 11 The world of the Renaissance herbalBrent Elliott 242 Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English ‘Renaissance’ gardenPaula Henderson 423 River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century ItalyClaudia Lazzaro 704 Dissembling his art: ‘Gascoigne’s Gardnings’Susan C. Staub 955 ‘My innocent diversion of gardening’: Mary Somerset’s plantsJennifer Munroe 1116 Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega’s Novelas a Marcia LeonardaAlexander Samson 1247 Experiencing the past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardensBrian Dix 151Index 183

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