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Viridarium Florentinum
Saverio Manetti’s 1750 catalog is more than a list of plants; it is a fierce defense of traditional botany against the rising tide of Linnaean reform. Readers will discover a practitioner’s perspective on how plants heal, why names matter, and the high-stakes politics of 18th-century scientific naming.