The thesis investigates the botanical wealth of Ferrara during the Este period, with particular attention to gardens, horti, delizie, and broli. The dukes of Ferrara promoted the urban and landscape development of the city and employed numerous gardeners, skilled in the cultivation of simples. At the University of Ferrara, eminent physician-botanists taught, including Nicolò Leoniceno, Giovanni Manardo, and Antonio Musa Brasavola, who reformed the study of simples and emphasized the importance of the direct observation of medicinal plants. Following the Devolution of Ferrara to the Papal States in 1598, the city’s former splendor rapidly declined, and many of its gardens and cultivated spaces were destroyed or abandoned. Despite this, botanical studies at the University continued under several distinguished scholars. In particular, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Antonio Campana emerged as a prominent figure, bequeathing his substantial specialized library.
La tesi analizza la ricchezza botanica di Ferrara in epoca estense: giardini, horti, delizie e broli. I duchi di Ferrara abbellirono la città e chiamarono al loro servizio molti giardinieri, esperti nella coltivazione dei semplici. Presso l'Università di Ferrara insegnarono importanti medici-botanici, fra i quali Nicolò Leoniceno, Giovanni Manardo e Antonio Musa Brasavola, che riformarono lo studio dei semplici e si impegnarono nella osservazione diretta delle piante officinali. Con la Devoluzione alla Chiesa nel 1598, tutte le bellezze della città svanirono, distrutte e abbandonate. Presso l'università lo studio della botanica continuò con alcuni validi docenti, in particolare si affermò tra Settecento ed Ottocento Antonio Campana che lasciò in dono la sua rilevante biblioteca specialistica.
Ferrara, la città giardino. Giardini, horti, delizie e la botanica dal Quattrocento all'Ottocento
BIANCARDI, DANIELE
2025/2026
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The thesis investigates the botanical wealth of Ferrara during the Este period, with particular attention to gardens, horti, delizie, and broli. The dukes of Ferrara promoted the urban and landscape development of the city and employed numerous gardeners, skilled in the cultivation of simples. At the University of Ferrara, eminent physician-botanists taught, including Nicolò Leoniceno, Giovanni Manardo, and Antonio Musa Brasavola, who reformed the study of simples and emphasized the importance of the direct observation of medicinal plants. Following the Devolution of Ferrara to the Papal States in 1598, the city’s former splendor rapidly declined, and many of its gardens and cultivated spaces were destroyed or abandoned. Despite this, botanical studies at the University continued under several distinguished scholars. In particular, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Antonio Campana emerged as a prominent figure, bequeathing his substantial specialized library.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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