HORTUS BOTANICUS PATAVINUS.mpg

The Botanical Garden was founded in 1545 by Francesco Bonafede, a professor at the University of Padua. His intention was to open a garden of medicinal plants where the properties of plant extracts could be studied for the advancement of medical science. Classical texts, especially Dioscorides' De Materia Medica, were the main source for the descriptions of plants and their medicinal properties, but these texts illustrations were often rough and unreliable. This lead to poisonous plants being mistaken for medicinal ones with similar physical characteristics, and patients often perished as a result. On 29th June 1545, the Republic's Council of the Prègadi approved the opening of a garden of medicinal plants on land let from the Curia of Padua tucked away between the Basilica of St. Justina and the Basilica of St. Anthony. The Republic of Venice's trade with the Mediterranean soon had the garden brimming with new species of plant.

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Historic Italian Botanic Garden Subject of New Film

26th April 2011

A new documentary film about the botanic garden at the University of Padua in Italy has been produced by Italian Director Michele Francesco Schiavon. The film, Hortus Botanicus Patavinus, is 46 minutes in duration.

Hortus Botanicus Patavinus shows the botanic garden at the University of Padua over the four seasons, and includes images from modernity and antiquity.

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"Per la splendida qualità delle immagini, con riprese effettuate nell’intero arco dell’anno, per la completezza della documentazione e per le elevate doti artistiche del filmato, ritengo che esso rappresenti in assoluto la migliore realizzazione sull’Orto Botanico a tutt’oggi disponibile."

Padova, 27 novembre 2008

Al Magnifico Rettore

dell’Università degli Studi di Padova

da Elsa M. Cappelletti

Prefetto dell’Orto Botanico