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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Cristina Bellorini , Dr. Andrew Cunningham , Professor Ole Peter GrellPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.742kg ISBN: 9781472466228ISBN 10: 1472466225 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 06 January 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents 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 BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationCristina 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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