The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Cosimo I Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519 - 1574)
Duke of Florence from 1537 to 1574, reigning as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1569. He was a major collector of art and antiquities and founded the Uffizi, in the first instance for administrative offices. Collector (major)References in Documents:
A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1664) A stone of the river in a frame, the Emperour confessed he never saw a rarer: for it doth represent a bridge
and an old ruinous tower, a tree with the bark, and birds flying in the
Air, it was the great Duke of Florences
Rarity.
Marble
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A Catalogue of Many Natural Rarities (Authorial, print 1665) A Marble stone of the river in a frame; the Emperour confessed he
never saw a rare, for it doth represent a bridge, and an old ruinous Tower,
a tree with the bark, and birds flying in the Air; it was the great Duke of Florences Rarity.
Arnon
Ferdinandthe third
A Catalogue of Those Rarities Collected (Authorial, print 1669) A Marble stone in a Frame, the Emperour confessed that he
never saw a Rarer, it represents a Bridge, a old ruinous Tower, a Tree with
the bark and Birds flying in the ayr, it was the great Duke of Florences Rarity.
Ferdinandothe third