Description: The album published here is Cassiano's copy of the Codex Badianus, a remarkable herbal of Aztec plants and medicine prepared for the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and presented to Cassiano's patron, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, during a papal legation to Spain in 1626. The earliest medical text and herbal known to have been written in t
Brief description: Martin Clayton is Deputy Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle and editor of the natural history volumes in the Dal Pozzo catalogue series. He has published extensively on the old master drawings in the Royal Collection.Luigi Guerrini is a historian specialising in the history of science in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and particularly in the history of the early Accademia dei Lincei (1603-1630) and Galileo.Alejandro de Avila is an anthropologist and founding director of the Jardin Etnobotanico in Oaxaca, Mexico.