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Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus; his name in Italian is equally given as Aldroandi. Aldrovandi was born in Bologna to Teseo Aldrovandi and his wife, a noble but poor Read more [...]
Georg Forster

Georg Forster

Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician of the Renaissance period. Forster was born at Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V’s court in Heidelberg around 1521, he was a colleague of Caspar Othmayr who would also become a composer of renown. Forster received his first instruction in composition from the Kapellmeister Lorenz Lemlin. Forster died at Nuremberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0mrogOzIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVM0-sWJ5Q&t=35s web Read more [...]