Article ID: CBB883888324

Il Principe don Giovanni de’ Medici maestro distillatore e la sua casa della fonderia (2021)

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Don Giovanni dei Medici, son of the Grand Duke Cosimo I dei Medici and the Florentine noblewoman, Eleonora degli Albizi, had a great many talents and interests. He was an architect, engineer, diplomat, man of arms, a general in the Venetian Army, man of letters, bibliophile, patron of the arts and early scientist. He devoted himself to studying medicines, building a foundry where he could conduct experiments at his Florentine palazzo. "L’elenco di tutte le robe presenti nella casa della fonderia" has survived and is now conserved at the State archives in Florence. The inventory drawn up by his faithful page and friend, Cosimo Baroncelli, in 1621 together with the prince’s correspondence and one of his medical recipes, documents don Giovanni’s interest in pharmacology.

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Authors & Contributors
Macchio, Marina
Bonazza, Mirna
Vicentini, Chiara Beatrice
Cipriani, Sandra Marsini
Zini, Marco
Carani, Maria Teresa
Concepts
Pharmacy
Manuscripts
Therapeutics
Apothecaries
Pharmacology
Medicine
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
Medieval
19th century
17th century
18th century
Places
Italy
Florence (Italy)
Europe
Padua (Italy)
Rome (Italy)
Tuscany (Italy)
Institutions
Ariostea Library (Ferrara, Italy)
Accademia del Cimento, Florence
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