We’re veryhappy to suggest you this reading, the same happiness we felt when we discovered this precious and refined jewel.
Le Language des Fleurs is one of the luckiest Nineteenth-century books in its genre, since it was immediately translated,illustrated and distributed all over Europe.
The author used a pen name, contributing to foster the magic and the fascination of such a romantic spirit. The Nineteenth century can be defined “the century of flowers”: the interest in botanics grows and becomes constant pretty everywhere, in particular the interest in floriography, that is appointing a symbolic meaning, a code, a proper grammar to each flower. Each feeling is assigned to a flower, developing a system that is able to express feelings more than words. The book is divided in 4 chapters, one for each season, and it is completed by 12 beautifully illustrated tables. So we discover that in a flowered bouquet there can be purity and desire… we dream is a perfumed language that nature gives us without asking anything in return:isn’t it the game of Rebirth?


Charlotte de Latour, The language of flowers
Italian edition by Casa EditriceLeo S. Olschki, collana giardini e paesaggio