9.30 am
Margherita Azzi Visentini, architectural historian, Politecnico di Milano
The lake in the vision of the 18th century English landscape garden: from the beginning of the Georgian period to the spread of the taste for the picturesque.
10 am
Villa S. Remigio e Villa Taranto a comparison with the English gardens of the period
Carola Lodari
Garden expert
10.30am
The “botanical” friendships of Vitaliano IX Borromeo Arese
Carlo Alessandro Pisoni, Curator of the Borromeo Archive, Isola Bella
11.00am
Tea Break
11.30am
Englishmen, gardeners and Italian Lakes. A glance at botanical connections between England and Northern Italy.
Andrew Hornung
Garden expert
12.00 noon
Guido Maspoli, director of the Administration of the Brissago islands and Botanical park of Canton Ticino
The garden of the Brissago islands and Baroness di St. Léger
ore 12.30pm
Ornella Selvafolta, architectural historian , Politecnico di Milano
Villa Melzi d'Eril a Bellagio: a landscape garden on Lake Como