Book review of Alessandro Ottaviani’s “Natura ed esattezza all’alba della scienza galileiana. Le ‘Observationes’ di Fabio Colonna”

The re-discovery of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s herbaria in the Library of El Escorial allows us to offer a somewhat different look at the library of this aristocrat, diplomat, collector and poet from Granada. As his library passed into the hands of Felipe II when Mendoza died in 1575, the herbaria were incorporated into the whole cultural, p…[Read more]