Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
@barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Neapolitan. Researcher at Ministry of Agriculture, Padua. Yale PhD
Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
Me, listening to a mansplain show-off non-question while presenting my book on theriac in Venice to physicians in the astonishing sala dell'albergo at Scuola grande di San Marco
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Me, listening to a mansplain show-off non-question while presenting my book on theriac in Venice to physicians in the astonishing sala dell'albergo at Scuola grande di San Marco
Why so few mushrooms in Western medicine? Mushrooms in early modern Western medicine today at Micocosmo festival in Capo di Ponte
#earlymodern #fungifriends #sciehist #histmed
#earlymodern #fungifriends #sciehist #histmed
September 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Why so few mushrooms in Western medicine? Mushrooms in early modern Western medicine today at Micocosmo festival in Capo di Ponte
#earlymodern #fungifriends #sciehist #histmed
#earlymodern #fungifriends #sciehist #histmed
The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy!
#histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma
#histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma
August 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The new history of theriac (since Watson's 1966) is out there in the world, on its own. At last, out of my thoughts. I am so happy!
#histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma
#histmed #histscie #earlymodern #histpharma #pharma
For fungi pics: mico-photo-contest @ Italian Mushrooms Festival in Capo di Ponte (BS) next September.
Check it out!
#fungi
#Fungifriends
#fungilovers
micocosmofestival.net/concorso-fot...
Check it out!
#fungi
#Fungifriends
#fungilovers
micocosmofestival.net/concorso-fot...
July 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For fungi pics: mico-photo-contest @ Italian Mushrooms Festival in Capo di Ponte (BS) next September.
Check it out!
#fungi
#Fungifriends
#fungilovers
micocosmofestival.net/concorso-fot...
Check it out!
#fungi
#Fungifriends
#fungilovers
micocosmofestival.net/concorso-fot...
July 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
July 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Truffles from a 16th-century pocket book for recognizing plants. Just in case you stumble upon them!
#fungifriends #histmed #histscie
#fungifriends #histmed #histscie
July 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Truffles from a 16th-century pocket book for recognizing plants. Just in case you stumble upon them!
#fungifriends #histmed #histscie
#fungifriends #histmed #histscie
July 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Claudia Addabbo on the histories of the Forti's Algarium with more than 40.000 specimens
May 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Claudia Addabbo on the histories of the Forti's Algarium with more than 40.000 specimens
All about algae today! Wiebe Kooistra talking about a forest of Laminaria at the Orto Botanico in Padua
May 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
All about algae today! Wiebe Kooistra talking about a forest of Laminaria at the Orto Botanico in Padua
Kathleen Drew Baker discovered the cycle of algae today used for sushi
May 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Kathleen Drew Baker discovered the cycle of algae today used for sushi
Coral from the Bosphorus with delightful "tartarine crust"
April 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Coral from the Bosphorus with delightful "tartarine crust"
I am looking forward to this workshop on early modern botanical gardens in Padua (where else?). Come join us!
April 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I am looking forward to this workshop on early modern botanical gardens in Padua (where else?). Come join us!
Exhibit of theriac in Hanau from 1693. Hundreds of ingredients and a checkered tile floor
April 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Exhibit of theriac in Hanau from 1693. Hundreds of ingredients and a checkered tile floor
You might say the entire book is about the painting... where shop boys came from, how many vipers you needed to make a batch of theriac, what mortars were made of... below an exhibit of theriac at Hanau (very rare image, not in the book)
April 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
You might say the entire book is about the painting... where shop boys came from, how many vipers you needed to make a batch of theriac, what mortars were made of... below an exhibit of theriac at Hanau (very rare image, not in the book)
Porsche wants to destroy an oak forest in Puglia to build a new test track, and local authorities are allowing this. #environment Please share www.robinwood.de/eichen-schue... www.robinwood.de/eichen-schue...
November 26, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Porsche wants to destroy an oak forest in Puglia to build a new test track, and local authorities are allowing this. #environment Please share www.robinwood.de/eichen-schue... www.robinwood.de/eichen-schue...
If you happen to be in Florence check out the Biblioteca Riccardiana for this exhibit on Florence and the Atlantic World 1500-1800 feom November 19 to January 10
November 21, 2024 at 9:27 AM
If you happen to be in Florence check out the Biblioteca Riccardiana for this exhibit on Florence and the Atlantic World 1500-1800 feom November 19 to January 10
Spot the little mushroom? #earlymodern #histsci
November 15, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Spot the little mushroom? #earlymodern #histsci
At 15, Cristina Roccati left Rovigo to go study physics at the University of Bologna in 1747. Looking forward to this exhibition! #earlymodern #histsci
November 13, 2024 at 4:54 PM
At 15, Cristina Roccati left Rovigo to go study physics at the University of Bologna in 1747. Looking forward to this exhibition! #earlymodern #histsci
My daughter's high school teacher of philosophy just lectured on the history of medicine and mentioned theriac😲! Passionate school teachers are fantastic!
October 2, 2023 at 9:15 AM
My daughter's high school teacher of philosophy just lectured on the history of medicine and mentioned theriac😲! Passionate school teachers are fantastic!