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Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context (2021)

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In the middle of the sixteenth century, a young physician from the south of Germany undertook a long journey in order to improve his professional knowledge. During this medical peregrination that lasted some seven years (1548-1555), Lorenz Gryll (also Laurentius Gryllus, 1524?-1560) visited nearly the whole of Western Europe. His trip was funded by the extremely wealthy Fugger family, and one of its explicit purposes was that Gryll – after his returnto Germany – would help improve the standards of medicine and medical teaching in his native region by introducing what he had learned in the core zones of medical innovation in Europe, that is Italy and France. Gryll’s journey, which we can follow thanks to his own account, triggers the main themes in this contribution about university gardens, medicine and botany in the 16th century: how medicinal were these university gardens, and in which contexts can we study their functions and uses? This excursion ultimately reveals the multifunctional organization of university gardens that went beyond mere medical teaching and ultimately shaped early modern culture.

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Authors & Contributors
Vicentini, Chiara Beatrice
Andel, Tinde van
Macchio, Marina
Mares, Donatella
Aleida Offerhaus
Silvia Fogliato
Concepts
Medicine
Therapeutics
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical botany
Botany
Botanical gardens
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
Renaissance
19th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
Italy
Europe
Germany
Mediterranean region
Apulia
Southern Europe
Institutions
University of Padua
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