27 avril 2021
Jennifer Rabe, « Balsamo Locatelli », Lady Arundel 1654–2054, ID : 10670/1.wtt1rc
Lodovico Locatelli, Teatro d'Arcani, 1644, Frontispiece A recurring term in the Italian manuscripts in Arundel Castle is Balsamo Locatelli. In the recipes, numerous variants for the production of the apparently very popular healing ointment are listed. The ointment was primarily used as an antidote against the plague and invented by a contemporary of Lady Arundel, Lodovico Locatelli (d. 1657). Locatelli wrote several pharmaceutical compendia, including the Trattato della Peste, publish...