Francisco Páez de la Cadena
Francisco Páez de la Cadena (born 1951 in Madrid) is a Spanish garden historian. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is also an Agricultural Engineer specialized in landscape architecture. His Ph. D. thesis deals with the relationship between gardens and philosophical texts of the Renaissance, such as the dialogues of Erasmus' Convivium religiosum, Lipsius' De constantia, or Juan de Mariana's De morte et inmortalitate. He has written several books on gardens and gardening, like Historia de los estilos en jardinería[1] (Istmo, 1982) (A history of the gardening styles), which has become a reference textbook in Spanish for the history of gardens. He's recently published a history of Spanish gardens, Jardines, la belleza cautiva (2008) with photographs by photographer and garden designer Eduardo Mencos. He is an active garden history and landscape professor at the University of La Rioja.
He has also written fiction (La derrota más hermosa, Debate, 1985, was awarded the Short Novel Sésamo Prize for 1985), and poetry: Cabos sueltos, Cuadernos de la Granada, 2007). Among his translations into Spanish (more than sixty books) there are novels by V. S. Naipaul (Nobel Prize for Literature 2001), Anthony Burgess, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, scientific works by Francis Crick and Antonio Damasio and poetry, the so-called "landscape" poems by Cesare Pavese.
References
- ↑ "Páez de la Cadena reivindica los jardines como cultura y reflejo de la naturaleza". El País. 31 December 1982. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
- Páez de la Cadena, Francisco (2008). "Paisajes de Pavese" (PDF). Fábula (in Spanish) (26): 68–73. ISSN 1698-2800.
- Páez de la Cadena, Francisco (2014). "La conversio de Agustín en las Confesiones traducida por Petrarca como una imitatio humanista. Una lectura de su polémica carta del Ventoux (Fam. IV, 1)". Ecozon@ (in Spanish) (5): 11–32. ISSN 2171-9594.