Flora: The Aztec Herbal (THE PAPER MUSEUM OF CASSIANO DAL POZZO. SERIES B: NATURAL HISTORY)

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The album published here is Cassiano’s copy of the Codex Badianus, a remarkable herbal of Aztec plants and medication prepared for the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and presented to Cassiano’s patron, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, right through a papal legation to Spain in 1626. The earliest medical text and herbal known to have been written within the New World, the Codex Badianus used to be copied at the Cardinal’s go back to Rome for Cassiano’s fellow members of the Accademia dei Lincei, engaged at the moment in completing their very own vast illustrated natural history of Central The usa, the Tesoro Messicano (in line with the notes and illustrations collected in Mexico by Francisco Hernandez).

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