Carolus Clusius. Towards a Cultural History of a Renaissance Naturalist

Abstract

Acknowledgement of the extensive common territory occupied by the cabinet and the garden has led in recent years to a rewarding interchange of ideas between those with scholarly interests in either field. A rich shared vocabulary of conceptual and organizational terms is matched, for example, by the migration of sculpture to the terraces and walks of the garden and by the flow of plant materials into the cabinet – frequently accompanied by references to the botanical literature by way of legitimation. In this context, the name of Charles de l’Écluse (1526–1609) will already be familiar to students of the history of collecting, but a few hours spent in the company of the present volume will convince English speakers of the centrality of the role he played in botanical studies during the latter part of the sixteenth century and of the influence he wielded throughout the breadth of Europe. It is...

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