Books, plants, herbaria

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and his circle in Italy (1539-1554)

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ID4393148
AuthorsElisa Andretta (0000-0001-6727-5664, CNRS-LARHRA, Lyon, France), José Pardo-Tomás (0000-0003-2368-097X, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume58
Issue1
Pages3-27
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0073-2753 • E-ISSN: 1753-8564
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0073275319838891
PMID30966826
OpenAlexW2940223572
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This article sets out to throw light on the intellectual and scientific activities of a group of Spanish humanists associated with the diplomat, aristocrat, and writer Diego Hurtado de Mendoza in the course of his fifteen years in Venice, Trent, and Rome, focusing on two aspects that have been neglected to date. These are (a) the integration of practices connected with the study of nature (herborizing expeditions and the production of herbaria) with the work of collating, translating, and commenting on classical texts dealing with natural history and materia medica; and (b) the insertion of these scientific activities in Italy by the Spanish subjects of the Emperor Charles V within the broader context of a specific cultural policy. This policy would later be fleshed out in the scientific project of the Spanish Crown under Philip II, inseparable as it was from the monarch's political and religious policy

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Emperor · Herbarium · Humanism · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Classics · Ecology · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Latin American history and culture · Law

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