Cristina Bellorini

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany (eBook, ePUB)

Medicine and Botany

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry, thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes, who patronised and sustained research and teaching, whilst also taking a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants, this book also shows how plants, while maintaining their importance in therapy, began to be considered and studied for themselves, and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how this led to the first attempts at taxonomy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317011491
• Artikelnr.: 46890430

Autorenporträt

Cristina Bellorini received her PhD from the History Department at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her current research project is a study of sixteenth-century agrarian and horticultural history in Italy, based on archival sources in Florence and Milan.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
Plants and Medicine at the Court of Cosimo,
Francesco, and Ferdinando de' Medici
The Construction of a Cultural Identity
The Importance of the Name Medici:
Cosmas and Damian
The Grand Dukes' Commitment to Medicine
The Fonderie
Plants and Gardens
Conclusion
Chapter 2
Medical Botany at the Re-founded University of Pisa
Cosimo I's Cultural Project and the University
Luca Ghini and the New Teaching of materia medica
Ghini's Placiti and Lectures
Andrea Cesalpino
Cesalpino's Herbarium (1563): A First Attempt
at Plant Classification
Cesalpino's De plantis
Conclusion
Chapter 3
New Ways of Studying Plants
Gardens of Simples
Herbaria
Field Trips
Botanical Illustration
Cosimo's Scrittoio
Brunfels and Fuchs
The Debate on Images
Iacopo Ligozzi
Conclusion
Chapter 4
Plants from the New World
The New plants
Florence and Discovery
American Plants in the Nuovo ricettario fiorentino
Luca Ghini on the French Disease
Gabriele Falloppio's Tractatus de morbo gallico
New plants in Mattioli's Discorsi
Nicolas Monardes's Historia Medicinal
American Plants in Cesalpino's De Plantis
Conclusion
Chapter 5
The Nuovo ricettario fiorentino
and the Understanding of Therapy
The First Edition of the Nuovo ricettario fiorentino
The Evolution of the Ricettario
The Penetration of Paracelsus's Theories into Tuscany
Plants and Chemistry: Distillation
Plants and Therapy in Paracelsus's Herbarius
The Doctrine of Signatures
Conclusion
Chapter 6
Theory and Practice
Medical Practice in the Faculty of Medicine
Three Texts of Mercuriale on Quartan Fever
Some Cases of Fever in the Medici Family
Cosimo I's Illness in 1572
The Account Books of the Speziale al Giglio
Simples
Medicines
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography

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Contents





Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1

Plants and Medicine at the Court of Cosimo,

Francesco, and Ferdinando de' Medici

The Construction of a Cultural Identity

The Importance of the Name Medici:

Cosmas and Damian

The Grand Dukes' Commitment to Medicine

The Fonderie

Plants and Gardens

Conclusion

Chapter 2

Medical Botany at the Re-founded University of Pisa

Cosimo I's Cultural Project and the University

Luca Ghini and the New Teaching of materia medica

Ghini's Placiti and Lectures

Andrea Cesalpino

Cesalpino's Herbarium (1563): A First Attempt

at Plant Classification

Cesalpino's De plantis

Conclusion

Chapter 3

New Ways of Studying Plants

Gardens of Simples

Herbaria

Field Trips

Botanical Illustration

Cosimo's Scrittoio

Brunfels and Fuchs

The Debate on Images

Iacopo Ligozzi

Conclusion

Chapter 4

Plants from the New World

The New plants

Florence and Discovery

American Plants in the Nuovo ricettario fiorentino

Luca Ghini on the French Disease

Gabriele Falloppio's Tractatus de morbo gallico

New plants in Mattioli's Discorsi

Nicolas Monardes's Historia Medicinal

American Plants in Cesalpino's De Plantis

Conclusion

Chapter 5

The Nuovo ricettario fiorentino

and the Understanding of Therapy

The First Edition of the Nuovo ricettario fiorentino

The Evolution of the Ricettario

The Penetration of Paracelsus's Theories into Tuscany

Plants and Chemistry: Distillation

Plants and Therapy in Paracelsus's Herbarius

The Doctrine of Signatures

Conclusion

Chapter 6

Theory and Practice

Medical Practice in the Faculty of Medicine

Three Texts of Mercuriale on Quartan Fever

Some Cases of Fever in the Medici Family

Cosimo I's Illness in 1572

The Account Books of the Speziale al Giglio

Simples

Medicines

Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography