Paula Findlen from Stanford University delivers a talk titled “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.”

Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Paula Findlen from Stanford University delivers a talk titled “Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples.” This talk was included in the session titled “Conceptualizing.” Part of “Early Modern Collections in Use,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples

Early modern collections played a key role in the creation and transmission of knowledge, but they are usually studied in terms of the objects they contained or how they came to exist. This conference instead explores how they were actually used in the 16th and 17th centuries. The conference was held at The Huntington Sept. 15–16, 2017.

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Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples

Why Put a Museum in a Book? Ferrante Imperato and Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Naples