Il mondo secondo Andrés Laguna (1511?-1559): Il Dioscorides spagnolo tra storia naturale e politica

Starting from an examination of the material and intellectual conditions surrounding the production of this work, our article reflects on the development of a renewed medical and natural knowledge while devoting special attention to how the new information was assimilated and put in circulation in often widely disparate geographic, social and intellectual contexts. Our aim is to examine Laguna’s world vision in political and cultural terms and how Laguna generated it by reconstructing the natural productions of the world and their therapeutic use in a very particular political context: that of the delicate transfer of power from Charle V to Philip II.