The Italian states: The idea of Italy and the Italian garden tradition ; Social imagery and social reality at a Medici garden ; Pastoralism and the Roman baroque villa and in Claude Lorrain ; Rural landscape of the Villa Mondragone near Frascati ; Ambition and imitation in a seventeenth-century villa -- French court: Catherine de Medicis and the locus of female rule ; Gender, flowers, and the baroque nature of Kingship ; Garden design and material identity in seventeenth-century France ; Carmontelle, the Jardin de Monceau, and irregular garden design in late-eighteenth-century France

1. Gardens -- Italy -- History
2. Gardens -- France -- History
3. Architecture
4. Domestic -- Italy -- History
5. Architecture
6. Domestic -- France -- History
7. Italy -- Social life and customs
8. France -- Social life and customs