Article ID: CBB696936193

I segreti di bellezza delle donne… Belletti, aque, unguenti, profumi nei ricettari di epoca Estense conservati alla Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea (2023)

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An ancient and rare book and documentary heritage of great wealth is preserved in Palazzo Paradiso, seat of the Ariostea Library, built up over the centuries: precious recipes “to make a woman beautiful ...” from the ancient collections of manuscripts and editions of the sixteenth century at the Ariostea Municipal Library in Ferrara. It is an important medical-cosmetic recipe manuscript from the sixteenth century, known as Pseudo-Savonarola, containing different types of recipes, among which those of cosmetics are distinguished. There are sixty-two recipes to magnify the beauty of women according to the dictates and fashions of the time, such as those to make-up, aque to whiten the flesh, that is turning a woman’s face whiter and odoriferous, to make the flesh coloured, to make a lady’s lipstick, to make her hair blond and other solutions that women of the past loved employing for their beauty. Among the precious sixteenth century books Corona de le donne by Eustachio Celebrino is extremely rare, published by the Venetian Bernardino Benali, on May 1, 1526. This is Opera nova excellentissima la quale insegna di far varie compositioni odorifere per far bella ciaschuna donna. Among the beauty tips there is also the recipe for a perfume.

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Authors & Contributors
Macchio, Marina
Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgio
Altieri, Lorenzo
Becchi, Antonio
Bernardoni, Andrea
Ciocci, Argante
Journals
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Publishers
Aracne
Carocci Editore
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Edizioni ETS
Olschki
Prospect Books
Concepts
Manuscripts
Pharmacy
Cosmetics; ointments; medical
Science and art
Mathematics
Cosmetics; perfumes
People
Leonardo da Vinci
Archimedes
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista
Castelli, Benedetto
Cibo, Gherardo
Commandino, Federico
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
15th century
17th century
19th century
20th century
Places
Italy
Europe
Florence (Italy)
Great Britain
London (England)
Turin (Italy)
Institutions
Ariostea Library (Ferrara, Italy)
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