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Volume 3 | Catalogue | Gardens and Medicinal Virtues

Gardens and Medicinal Virtues

Health and Beauty Between Past and Present

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Sabrina Minuzzi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email

Abstract
This short catalogue was created to leave a trace of the exhibition realised at the end of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project based at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The aim of the event was to explain what was meant in the past by materia medica – plants, animals and minerals as a source of medicinal substances – but also how many implications knowledge, and therefore respect and love for Nature, has in the present as well. The exhibition, set up in the ancient venue of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, the Sala Sansoviniana, involved public and private subjects, with a variety of items: illustrated herbals, rare handbills for medicinal remedies, apothecary’s tools, works of art (etchings, engravings, mixed techniques) and even two board games, one from the nineteenth century and another from the present day, with naturalistic woodcuts.

Keywords Plants • Herbarium • Medicine • Games • Herbs • Art

Copyright © 2023 Sabrina Minuzzi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted in unadapted form only and provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Preface
July 26, 2023

Section 1. Origins. Materia Medica from the Ancient Greek World
July 26, 2023

Section 2. Pietro Antonio Michiel’s Garden and the Litigiousness of Protobotanists
July 26, 2023

Section 4. The ‘Orvietano’: The Antidote of the Two Worlds
July 26, 2023

Section V. Aboca and the Materia Medica Between Past and Future
July 26, 2023

Section 6. Lorenzo Patarol’s Aesthetising Garden
July 26, 2023

Section 7. Materia Medica and Art
July 26, 2023

Section 8. Playing with Herbs and Plants: The Garden of Magic
July 26, 2023

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dc.title	Gardens and Medicinal Virtues. Health and Beauty Between Past and Present
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dc.description.abstract	This short catalogue was created to leave a trace of the exhibition realised at the end of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project based at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The aim of the event was to explain what was meant in the past by materia medica – plants, animals and minerals as a source of medicinal substances – but also how many implications knowledge, and therefore respect and love for Nature, has in the present as well. The exhibition, set up in the ancient venue of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, the Sala Sansoviniana, involved public and private subjects, with a variety of items: illustrated herbals, rare handbills for medicinal remedies, apothecary’s tools, works of art (etchings, engravings, mixed techniques) and even two board games, one from the nineteenth century and another from the present day, with naturalistic woodcuts.
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dc.issued	2023-07-26
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dc.subject	Art
dc.subject	Games
dc.subject	Herbarium
dc.subject	Herbs
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	Plants
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