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He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy and is also an Agricultural Engineer specialized in landscape architecture.
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Francisco Cadena
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His Doctor of Philosophy 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 (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 Louisiana Rioja.
Among his translations into Spanish (more than sixty books) there are novels by V. South. 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.
