Campo Sant’Aponal
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A Theriac recipe (1734)
A 1700s recipe for the miracle medicine Theriac, with most of the ingredients identified.
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Speziali or Pharmacies in Venice
An incomplete list of pharmacies, or speziali, which have at some time existed in Venice. Some are still around.
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Nobile sopra l’incanto — Nobleman as Auctioneer — Grevembroch 1-81
“Nobile sopra l’incanto” (Noble as Auctioneer) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.