The Houston Museum Of Natural Science - Houston - 26 October 2012 - 31 March 2013
January 1, 2013
In the mid-1400s, many celebrated artists, goldsmiths, silversmiths and engravers were attracted by the abundance of wealth in the city of Florence, but the most important factor in this gathering of talent was the presence of the Medici family.
Religious dissent and social turmoil characterized the period from the sixteenth through seventeeth centuries and this turbulence is reflected in the many documents concerning heresy in the Medici
Accounts of violence, both public and private proliferate in the documents of the Medici Archive; from domestic violence, rape, murder, capital punishment, and duels to armed conflicts involving im
The letters that circulated at the Medici court are full of information on early modern medicine, from drugs developed out of plants imported from the New World to the latest surgical methods
