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Fabrizio Baldassarri

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ResearcherHPS - early modern natural philo (#DescartesLab), sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬/former MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U /Current Warburg/I Tatti fellow /YR #ConEnvHIst Milan - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jan 14

15.1.2021-14.1.2024 Today is my last day as a MSCA fellow. I am thankful to CaFoscari and BloomingtonHPS IU that hosted me, to my supervisors and all people who have supported my research - I look forward to new adventures🎑 and to new research projects!🌿🌾🍍#vegscilif #histsci #manipulatingflora

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 7h

It is out Jean-Pascal Anfray's book review of it - quite a generous and deep reading - for the Revue de métaphysique et de morale - here: shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-...

I am happy that my Descartes is part of #histsci and not only #histphilo #Descartes #cartesianism #plants

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Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social · 12h

As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 1d

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
the book is available here #descartes #17thcentury #earlymodernstudies #histphilo #histsci

René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies

René Descartes’s Philosophy of Nature sheds new light on his detailed study of minerals, plants, and animals.

link.springer.com

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 1d

More than 50 scholars joined us today for the presentation of my book on Descartes. Many thanks to Igor Agostini and the Centro Dipartimentale di Studi su Descartes, who made It possibile, to Daniel Garber and Deborah Brown for their deep and nice comments, and the engaging discussion!

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 6d

Getting ready for my course: Ecologies of Knowledge - @unimi (Historical Studies)
#environmentalstudies #environmentalhistory #envhist #ConEnvHist #histsci #workshop #17thcenturystudies I will map the pre-history of ecological thinking in different fields #ecology #plantstudies #courses #history

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · 15d

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I have joined #KnowledgeCommons as a new space to share research and ideas, and meet colleagues
I hope it works good #histsci #exchange #sociallife

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Aug 27

#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · Jul 28

Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by and watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own.

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Aug 1

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team
#histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies

REPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ANDREA CESALPINO SYSTEMATICS SYMPOSIUM – IACS500, PISA, ITALY, 5–6 JUNE 2025

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jul 15

I forgot to mention that Renaissance Studies at IU, Bloomington will sponsor the panel - which will thereby be accepted by RSA committee. #RSA26 #RSA #RenaissanceStudies #Wine

Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jul 6

Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾

My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026

#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory

Apply if interested - send me a short abstract

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

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DescartesLab @descarteslab.bsky.social · Jul 8

The next #ForumDescartes will be in Torino - January 21-23, 2026 - the CFP is available (submission by September 15)

Share and apply if you are working on #Descartes #Cartesianism #17thcentury #histphilo #histsci
The lineup of organizers is important!

#Phdstudents #graduatestudents #philosophers

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jul 3

We are happy to share the second series of #DescartesLab here more info

fbaldassarriphilo.wordpress.com/home/researc...

note also the side event on October 6th.

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DescartesLab @descarteslab.bsky.social · Jul 3

Next season of #DescartesLab is now available⤵️
The first meeting is on Nov.11, 2025 - with Steve Nadler's book on La Forge. Then, we'll discuss Cartesian ontology, Cartesian linguistic and Descartes' politics - a broad array of topics, ranging from science to philosophy and social life #17thcentury

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 16

A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 10

www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/en/2025/06/i...

Snapshot of the recent workshop held in Pisa to celebrate 500 years of Cesalpino (1524/1525-1603) and plant systematics - with the abstracts of presentations #plantstudies #cesalpino #ortobotanico #herbarium #renaissance #renstudies #botany #histsci

IACS500 Wraps Up: Celebrating 500 Years of Andrea Cesalpino’s Legacy in Systematics - Orto e Museo Botanico

IACS500 Wraps Up: Celebrating 500 Years of Andrea Cesalpino’s Legacy in Systematics The congress welcomed 34 participants, mainly from Europe (Italy, Bulgaria, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain), but als...

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 5

Let me also add that the volume is now available in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/andrea-ce...

Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple tradit…

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 5

In Pisa #OrtoBotanico1543 to celebrate #AndreCesalpino #500years and plant systematics #taxonomy #histsci #plantstudies #plantknowledge #botany
From the Renaissance to today's science, Cesalpino is a fascinating scholar. Happy to contribute with a presentation about his life and work

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 4

Today: Seminar in Theoretical Philosophy at UniFi on #plantstudies in early modern natural philosophy - mainly, discussing 2 alternatives to Aristotelianism: plant-machines and plant-intelligence
Tomorrow: 500-year celebration for Andrea #Cesalpino with a keynote
#histsci #histplants #botany

Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Jun 2

Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 30

the event is

Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 30

the event is entirely online - to attend, feel free to reach me or email [email protected]

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 30

📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 30

#ConEnvHist

Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · May 26

📣On June 4th, I give a paper on plant studies in early modern philosophy and science, why this is an absent topic in historical studies, and why this topic is important at the time - discussing the life of nature in mechanical studies
The event is part of the Theoretical Philosophy seminar at UniFI

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