| Abstrakt: |
Books 15 and 23 Of the Naturalis Historia by Plinitis the Elder are part of his opera dedicated to botany. Book 15 is a compendium relating to the observation and description of specific nature and characteristics of the olive tree and offruit trees, mostly cultivated; these trees are also analyzed in the book through digressions on the remedia. Book 23 is articulated as a broad rdection on medicinal properties (medicinae arborum) Of the trees described in Book 15. These two books. even if one independent from the other, can be read in parallel. Basically. f present my study about the two books following the original organization of the Plinian opera: it focuses not only on the investigation about the term colour itself, but also about the names of the different colours and other terms or attributions attributable to the colour/colours. The search for colour in the original texts is more emphasized in the analysis of Book 15: otherwise, I ojfer Book 23 as a reduced promptuarium medicinarum arborum, obviously based on the Plinian description. In the end, some brief considerations on the value of colour in Traditional Chinese Medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
