Fabrizio Baldassarri
@fabribald
RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
#Cucumbers are the less strange of all strange plants, whose behaviour would only be difficultly confined to vegetation (nutrition and growth), as since Virgil's Georgics, it would be "coiling through the grass, swells into a paunch" #vegetation #plantlife #appetite #histplants #histsci #histphilo
#HSS26 #ESHS26 #histsci #practitioners #artisans #instruments Our discussion of agriculture and practices went very well this morning at #eshshss joing meeting in Edinburgh
wrapping it #environmentalstudies #agriculture #histsci #botany #artisans #rustics
The website for the new book series Crafting Nature is online @brepols.net I co-edit it with Giancarla Periti - and the board is rich with colleagues working on the intersections between #arthistory #histsci We look forward to book/volume proposals #bookseries www.brepols.net/series/HMCN
Malpighi on studying plant anatomy #plantstudies #botany #plantscience #histsci
Very happy to have the proofs of this contribution on Locke's botany for a volume on John Locke and the sciences, edited by Luisa Simonutti and Roberto Evangelista for @brepols.net #Locke #histphilo #histsci #plantstudies #pineapple #essences
A very inspiring seminar by Daniel Garber on Leibniz's mechanistic approach #histsci #histphilo #17thcentury #mechanicism
Hyacinto Matthioli as depicted by Marcello Malpighi in his Anatome Plantarum (1675-1679) #histplants #histsci #arthistory #craftingnature #botany #elegance
The parallel between Marcello Malpighi's representation of the optical nerve and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's rumpled garment is striking. Cloth, textile, and texture are a clear reference in the work of seventeenth-century anatomists #textile #analogies #histsci #anatomy #texture
Tomorrow, April 10, 2026, at 12.00 pm (Italy time), there is an online seminar on #UlisseAldrovani, organized by the group working on the National Editions of Aldrovandi @m-azzolini.bsky.social, Matteo Martelli and Caterina Manco Here the poster #nathistory #Renaissancestudies #histnat #histsci
A large piece of turf #nature #naturalhistory #histsci #arthistory #environment #envhist
Pier Antonio Micheli on some parasitic plants (1710), outlining that the practices of rustics (agricoltori) are sometimes ineffective, especially when not paired with theoretical knowledge of plants! #envhist #histsci #agriculture #plants #histplants #botany
On marine plants - corals and fungi - in Klein 1747 work! #plantstudies #marineplants #zoophytes #histsci #fungi #corals
Barbara Denicolò presenting a paper on wine in culinary recipes
at #RSA26 @rsaorg.bsky.social we discussed wine as an multilayered object, revealing a strong interconnection between human art and natural life, and finally interconnecting medicine, agronomy, botany, culinary, and antiquarianism #histsci #environment #envhist #Renaissance #wine #vino
as it happens, I made this in a haste and with several mistakes in the programme of the three panels... here the correct (I hope) version #environmentalhistory #envhist #histagriculture #histsci #HSS26 #ESHS26 #17thcentury #histmath
Happy that my panels for #HSS26 #ESHS26 have been accepted. Here the lineup @hssgecc.bsky.social I look forward to discussing instruments and tools in premodern science (agriculture, botany, mineralogy, navigation and mathematics) #histsci #instruments #agriculture #environment
Wrapping the presentation #Bacci #histsci #histplants #16thcentury #rsa26 @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #rsaSanFran26 #wine #vino #plantstudies #envhist #conenvhist
Vines - Vitis vinifera in Fuchs, Carrara Herbal and Topkapi Dioscorides... preparing my ppt on the natural history of wine in Bacci and sixteenth-century culture for @renaissancesociety.bsky.social #RSASanFran26 #RSA26 #histplant #plantstudies
On Monday, February 2nd, I present with Simone Guidi Rule 11 of the Regulae ad directionem ingenii - I discuss the second part of it, so to say, where #Descartes offers some insights on #enumeration --- which I have already presented in my talk on Rule 7 Here the program: www.sns.it/it/evento/re...
a great discussion of Raphaele Andrault's book Le fer ou le feu (2024) - it's a great focus on pain as a crucial element to convey a philosophical investigation. #histsci #histmedicine are important in #histphilo #descartes we presented it in @descarteslab.bsky.social #DescartesLab
In the second book of his De motu animalium, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli provides a strong mechanization of plant life, as in chapter 13 he discusses "On Plant Generation and Vegetation", somehow reducing plants to hydraulic machines - or a thermometer raising sap/liquors #plantlife #histsci
Join us next Tuesday in Rome, at University of Rome 3, for the final meeting of the Prin Comunicare e Rappresentare le scienze della terra nell'Italia moderna with several colleagues. #histsci #17thcentury #earthstudies
Happy for this book review of my "René Descartes's Natural Philosophy and Particular bodies" written by Andrea Strazzoni In the latest issue of the Rivista di filosofia #descartes #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo #physics the review is here: www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1413/...