The humanistic tradition of citrus culture in Central Europe from the 15th to the 18th century

Abstract

The development of central Europe’s orangery culture during the 17th and 18th century can only be understood alongside the Renaissance humanism of the 15th and 16th century, which was concerned primarily with reviving the intellectual culture of classical times by reading and receiving the writers of classical antiquity. Its origins were based equally on two preconditions: that the contemporary garden culture of Spain and Sicily, which had specialised in citrus plants since the middle of the ...