Article ID: CBB772975239

Translating Forbidden Authors: New Evidence on the Alchemical Library of Don Antonio de’ Medici (2024)

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Research into the history of alchemy and Paracelsianism in Italy has highlighted the role of Italian courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as centres of elaboration and diffusion of alchemical knowledge. Among these, one of the best known is the Medici court which already dedicated spaces in the ducal foundry to the alchemical arts in the time of Cosimo I. This interest would remain alive with Francesco I and his son, Don Antonio de' Medici, one of the greatest supporters of Paracelsian medicine in Italy. This contribution presents previously unpublished sources, now preserved in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze and in the collection of the Biblioteca degli Intronati in Siena, that can help us reconstruct in greater detail some significant aspects of Medici alchemical engagement and can, above all, help further determine Paracelsus’s influence in seventeenth century Florence.

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Authors & Contributors
Kahn, Didier
Moran, Bruce T.
Bobory, Dóra
Eamon, William C.
Gilly, Carlos
Hall, Crystal
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Azogue: Revista Electrónica Dedicada al Estudio Histórico-Crítico de la Alquimia
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Medical History
Nova Acta Paracelsica: Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Paracelsus-Gesellschaft
Publishers
CNRS Éditions
Hermann
Olschki
Truman State University Press
Walter de Gruyter
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
Concepts
Alchemy
Paracelsianism
Court sponsored science; patronage
Medicine
Chemistry
Science and religion
People
Paracelsus, Theophrastus von Hohenheim
Medici, family
Alvensleben, Gebhardt Johann von
Anthony, Francis
Barba, Alvaro Alonso
Batthyány, Boldizsár
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
18th century
Early modern
15th century
19th century
Places
Italy
Spain
Peru
Tuscany (Italy)
Venice (Italy)
Belgium
Institutions
Marburg. Universität
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