Plaque Designating The Home In Which Giuseppe Degli Aromatari Was Born On March 25th, 1587 In Assisi, Italy. Editorial Photo

Pictured is an inscribed stone plaque designating the home in which Giuseppe degli Aromatari was born on March 25th, 1587 in Assisi, Italy. He was an Italian physcian and writer. The only medical work that Aromatari seems to have published was on hydrophobia, with the title De Rabie contagiosa. He defended the poet of Laura, Petrarch, from Alessandro Tassoni. He also must be given the honor of clearly stating the great facts of the development of vegetable life, which in the hands of Linnæus and subsequent writers have become the foundation of principles of the first importance in the science of botany. He died in 1660 in Venice.