The Renaissance was a period of unparalleled beauty, excitement, and interest in Florence, despite frequent plagues and wars, thanks in large part to the presen

Renaissance Florence was a period of intense activity, including the promotion and development of herbal medicine as a scientific discipline.

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical facultie

A study of the Speziale al Giglio apothecary shop in fifteenth-century Florence, Italy.

In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeias—official lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial gove