All Outputs (6)

Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy (2023)
Book Chapter
Piana, P., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2023). Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy. In R. Cevasco, V. Pescini, & R. Hearn (Eds.), Situating foodways and foodscapes: Dalla tavola al terreno (237-260). Genoa, Italy: Genova University Press

Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
Book
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2021). Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial offici... Read More about Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920.

Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy) (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy). Landscape History, 39(2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2018.1534460

This paper explores the value of landscape and topographical art for understanding contemporary landscapes of the Val d’Aosta, NW Italy. The region became very popular with British tourists in the early nineteenth-century and several amateur and prof... Read More about Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy).

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria. Rural History, 29(2), 167-193. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793318000079

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. Th... Read More about Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria.

Historical chestnut cultures, climate, and rural landscapes in the Apennines (2015)
Book Chapter
Cevasco, R., Moreno, D., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2015). Historical chestnut cultures, climate, and rural landscapes in the Apennines. In D. Harvey, & J. Perry (Eds.), The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (130-148). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315724164

The cultural and land use implications of the reappearance of the wild boar in North West Italy: A case study of the Val di Vara (2014)
Journal Article
Hearn, R., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2014). The cultural and land use implications of the reappearance of the wild boar in North West Italy: A case study of the Val di Vara. Journal of Rural Studies, 36, 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.06.004