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Cavallo, Daniela, "Trini colores, candidus primo, mox rubens, maturis niger (Nat. 15, 97) Alberi colori medicina: suggestioni dai libri 15 e 23 della Naturalis historia di Plinio el Vecchio", Medicina nei Secoli. Arte e Scienzia, (Ejemplar dedicado a: Medicine and colour) 32/2 (2020), 389-428.
- Resum
- Books 15 and 23 of the Naturalis Historia by Plinius the Elder are part of his opera dedicated to botany. Book 15 is a compendium relating to the observation and description of specific nature and characteristics of the olive tree and of fruit trees, mostly cultivated; these trees are also analyzed in the book through digressions on the remedia. Book 23 is articulated as a broad reflection on medicinal properties (medicinae arborum) of the trees described in Book 15. These two books, even if one independent from the other, can be read in parallel. Basically, I present my study about the two books following the original organization of the Plinian opera; it focuses not only on the investigation about the term colour itself, but also about the names of the different colours and other terms or attributions attributable to the colour/colours. The search for colour in the original texts is more emphasized in the analysis of Book 15; otherwise, I offer Book 23 as a reduced promptuarium medicinarum arborum, obviously based on the Plinian description. In the end, some brief considerations on the value of colour in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Llatí
Manuscrits
Història natural - Vegetals
- URL
- https://www.medicinaneisecoli.it/index.php/MedSecol ...
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