Francesco Pona

Works

• 1620 Sileno overo Delle Bellezze del Luogo dell'Ill.mo Sig. Co. Gio. Giacomo Giusti. Pubblicato, con l'occasione delle Nozze de gl'Ill.mi Sig.ri Il Sig. Conte Francesco Giusti e la Signora Antonia Lazise. Angelo Tamo in Verona 1620 con licenza de' Superiori. This work brings first-hand information on Giardino all'italiana of Giardino Giusti in Verona owned by the Counts Giusti, in fact, the apothecary and botanist Francesco Pona was also gardener Counts Giusti.
• 1622 Il Paradiso de' Fiori overo Lo archetipo de' Giardini. Angelo Tamo in Verona 1622 con licenza de' Superiori. This manual gardening is important to know first hand how to create a Giardino all'italiana of Giardino Giusti in Verona with topiary choice and care of the plants, the garden owned by the Counts Giusti, in fact, pharmacist and botanist Francesco Pona was also gardener Counts Giusti.
• 1625 - La Lucerna - a dialogue reporting the imagined discussions over four evenings between a speaker-narrator and his student Eureta, allowing the author to tell a series of observations, stories, curious or memorable facts and the lives of modern, mythological or historical people, each of whom the author makes represent a specific behavioural trait or illustrate a particular moral teaching

• 1631 - Il Gran contagio di Verona