Global Aldrovandi

Exchanging Nature and Material Culture in the Early Modern World

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Volume Editor:
Davide Domenici
and
Lia Markey
Global Aldrovandi represents the first volume to consider the Bolognese polymath’s engagement with the growing world of the early modern period through a variety of disciplinary approaches. The essays engage with the complex network the naturalist developed throughout Europe and interrogate his vast archival holdings and collections, considering his impact not only on the early modern period but also into modern times. Traveling from the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and throughout Europe, the book tells the rich story of an early modern armchair naturalist who traversed the globe via his own studies, correspondence, and collection.

Contributors include Monica Azzolini, Elena Canadelli, Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore, Noemi Di Tommaso, Davide Domenici, Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Paula Findlen, Hannah Marcus, Lia Markey, Daniela Picchi, Alessandra Russo, Cristiana Scappini, Luca Tonetti, Alessandro Tosi, Rebecca Zorach.
Copyright Year:
2026
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978-90-04-76486-6
Publication date:
16 Sep 2026
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Davide Domenici is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy. A specialist in pre-Hispanic and early colonial Mesoamerica, he is currently studying the reception of Indigenous artifacts in early modern Italy.

Lia Markey is the Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library and Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence (2016).
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
 Introduction
 Davide Domenici and Lia Markey

1 “Per totum universum insinuans”: Aldrovandi on How Fossils Form
 Rebecca Zorach
 2 Ulisse Aldrovandi: Per hieroglyphica ad Aegyptum  Daniela Picchi and Cristiana Scappini

3 A Geography of Knowledge: Aldrovandi on Exploring the Northern Edges of Europe
 Monica Azzolini

4 The Epistolary Garden: African Flora in Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Correspondence
 Noemi di Tommaso

5 Images from the East: Ulisse Aldrovandi and Asia
 Alessandro Tosi
 6 Graphic Techniques and Visual Strategies: Woodcuts of Artifacts from the Americas in Musaeum metallicum  Caroline Duroselle-Melish

7 Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Engagement with Mesoamerican Material Culture
 Davide Domenici

8 Novitatem Pariens  Bearing and Portraying Novelty in the Monstrorum historia (1642)
 Alessandra Russo
 9 Aldrovandi’s Farmaceptica: Global Knowledge, Local Remedies
 Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore

10 Aldrovandi’s Natural History Collections in Circulation
 Assembling and Disassembling Objects during the Napoleonic Era and Beyond
 Elena Canadelli and Luca Tonetti

11 Aldrovandi in Old Age: How an Aging Man Saw His World
 Hannah Marcus

12 The Return of Ulysses: Aldrovandi for the Twenty-First Century
 Paula Findlen
Readers include scholars and the general public interested in the history of science, the history of art, book history, and collecting history of the early modern world and beyond.
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出版社:
Brill
Language:
英语
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004764866

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