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Dr. Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Assistant Professor
Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Prior to joining the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto was a post-doctorate fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.) She later taught landscape architectural history and design at The Ohio State University. Dr. Giannetto’s research interests include the history of landscape architecture, particularly Italian Renaissance Gardens; historiography; and contemporary landscape design. She has lectured in Europe at the Studienkurs des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florence; at the 6th International Conference for Word and Image Studies in Hamburg; and in the United States at New School University in New York; the University of Pennsylvania; and Dumbarton Oaks.
Education
- Ph.D. in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, 2004.
- Master of Science in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, 2004.
- Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, 1999.
- Laurea (summa cum laude) in Architecture, University of Palermo, Italy, 1996.
Selected Publications
Books authored
- Medici Gardens: From Making to Design Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
- Paolo Bürgi Landscape Architect: Kreuzlingen Hafenplatz Source Books in Landscape Architecture (series editor). New York: Princeton Architectural Press (forthcoming in 2009).
Chapters in books
- “Types of Gardens in the Renaissance” Invited contribution to the forthcoming multivolume series The Cultural History of Gardens, edited by John Dixon Hunt and Michael Leslie - Berg Publishing (forthcoming in 2010).
- “From Cactus to Edelweiss: Reassessing the Italian Garden Tradition,” in Recent Issues in Italian Garden Studies: Sources, Methods, and Theoretical Perspectives. Edited by John Beardsley. Harvard University Press (forthcoming in 2010).
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- “Writing the Garden in the Age of Humanism: Petrarch and Boccaccio” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 23, n. 3 (2003): 213-257.
Book reviews
- Review of Ada Segre, The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665: A Manuscript Planting Notebook with a Study, Transcription, and Translation, 2 vols., Harvard University Press, 2006. Renaissance Quarterly 60, n. 2 (Summer 2007): 554-555.
- Review of Anne Bélanger, Bomarzo ou les incertitudes de la lecture: Figure de la “meraviglia” dans un jardin maniériste du XVIe siècle, Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2007. Forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly.