Silvestri and Aliata's proposal addresses the study of landscape in art and history, without neglecting the dimensions this concept acquires in earth sciences, architecture and urban planning, literature, and other areas of intellectual pursuits, which broaden the perspective on aesthetics beyond landscape painting. A central focus of the book is the garden, both as an idea and as a project—that artifice of nature where solace, contemplation, and recreation reside, but also where sight, aesthetic enjoyment, and scientific knowledge are sought. The book compiles some of the major discussions that marked the history of the garden in the specialized literature of the late 20th century, also incorporating philosophical perspectives rarely used to analyze the work of the horticulturists, botanists, engineers, and landscape architects who shaped this miniature replica of paradise in the West. Moreover, they did so twenty years before authors such as Jacques Rancière described the garden as the protagonist of the aesthetic revolution of the 18th century.