I Mostri di Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 - 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carolus Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older literature, as Aldrovandus.
Aldrovandi was born in Bologna to a noble family, which sent him to apprentice with merchants, but he found his vocation, after studying humanities and law at the universities of Bologna and Padua and becoming a notary. Successively his interests went out to philosophy and logic which he combined with the study of medicine.
He obtained a degree in medicine and philosophy in 1553 and started teaching logic and philosophy in 1554 at the University of Bologna. In 1559 he became professor of philosophy and in 1561 he became the first professor of natural sciences at Bologna (lectura philosophiae naturalis ordinaria de fossilibus, plantis et animalibus).
In the course of his life he would assemble one of the most spectacular cabinets of curiosities, his "theatre" illuminating natural history comprising some 7000 specimens of the diversità di cose naturali, of which he wrote a description in 1595. 
Music by Brian Eno, 'Final sunset'.

Ulisse Aldrovandi (Bologna, 11 settembre 1522 - Bologna, 4 maggio 1605) è stato un naturalista, botanico ed entomologo italiano, realizzatore di uno dei primi musei di storia naturale, studioso delle diversità del mondo vivente, esploratore che, negli ultimi decenni del Cinquecento e fino ai primi del Seicento, si impose come una delle maggiori figure della scienza, nonché guida e riferimento per i naturalisti italiani contemporanei.
Le sue imponenti raccolte naturalistiche sono riunite ancora oggi in larga parte nel Museo Aldrovandiano custodito presso l'Università di Bologna, a Palazzo Poggi. Egli inoltre coniò nel 1603 il termine geologia.

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[Zzyxzaa]

Amazing video. I'd like to know what the descriptions say.

[Incognito851]

I like this video and also the music you have choosen. Nice to see the imagination of former times.

[endymione63]

Straordinario documento iconografico e splendida scelta sonora. Complimenti vivi e cordiali

[ronpolla]

this is wonderful

[AdamLore]

Superb presentation.

Never a letdown.