Italian Formal Gardens and Their Landscapes: Franci Hamel

These pictures shamelessly offer escape, Italian formal gardens and their landscapes are some of the most beautiful places in the world and I have done my best to try and capturea bit of their magic. I would like to thank Angela Lloyd for getting me started and Rosalynd Pio for guiding so expertly and entertaining me so generously. Thanks too for allowing me into their beautiful gardens to (in chronological order) The Earl of Durham, Selina Bonelli Zondadari, Cristina Fantacci Cellini and New York University, Principe Giovanni Corsini, Donna Vittoria Colonna, Professore Lino Pertile and The University of Harvard, Baron and Baroness Amerigo Franchetti and Maria Teresa Benedetti. Thanks too to Charles and Angela Cottrell-Dormer for letting me live and work in a bit of Italy imported by William Kent in the eighteenth century, blended with England and lovingly tended at Rousham in Oxfordshire since then by them and their forebears. The best of both worlds.

Francis Hamel