The world of plants in Renaissance Tuscany : medicine and botany / Cristina Bellorini.

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2016]

x, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plants and medicine at the court of Cosimo, Francesco, and Ferdinando de' Medici -- Medical botany at the re-founded University of Pisa -- New ways of studying plants -- Plants from the new world -- The Nuovo Ricettario Fiorentino and the understanding of therapy -- Theory and practice.