Le giardiniere. Semi, radici, propaggini dall’Inghilterra al mondo

held the chair of English Literature at Milan State University. She authored books on John Neal, on William Gilpin and the Picturesque, on XIX c. literature and visual culture.  Editor of books on Charles Dickens, history and narration, children’s literature, fiction and food, travel literature, she has written many essays on gardens, on English authors from Alexander Pope to David Bowie, John Ruskin, Virginia Woolf, chemistry and fin-de-siècle taste, Dada in England. Forthcoming the collection of essays Some Keywords in Dickens; the volume Il Pittoresco, 1700-1900, and several essays on the Chinese community in XIX c. London. 

earned her MA degree from Milan State University with a dissertation on the Scottish naturalist John Muir. She works for Myplant & Garden, the International trade fair for horticulture, landscape and garden in Italy. Her essays on John Muir, Dorothy Wordworth, Gertrude Jekyll have appeared in international publications; today she works with hoe and boots in her small vegetable garden, at 4265 ft. on the Dolomites.

earned her MA degree from Milan State University, with a dissertation on «Women and Kew Gardens: from Queen Caroline to Virginia Woolf». Today she works as independent scholar carrying out research projects on garden history; her research interests focus on the flora, botanical culture, and the gardens of the countries visited by Marianne North, a Victorian traveller and artist.