The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Francesco Calzolari (1522 - 1609)
Alias Francesco Calceolari [alias]
Relevant locations: Residence at Verona, Italy
Relationships: Francesco Calzolari was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Andrea Chiocco (1562-1624)
Linked print sources: as Collector (minor) - Musaeum Franc. Calceolari Jun. Veronensis à Benedicto Ceruta, medico incæptum, et ab Andrea Chiocco, med. physico excellentiss. collegii..
References in Documents:
With many thanks I return that noble Catalogue of Books, Rarities and
Singularities of Art and Nature, which you were pleased to communicate unto me.
There are many Collections of this kind in Musæum Aldrovandi,
OCalceo-
194; the Musæum Clausum, or, Tract XIII.
Calceolarianum, Moscardi, WormianumDennis,Repository of the
Capreolus Moschi.Gesner
reckoning up the Names, tells us, That the
him a
Musk Cat. But is better at other Languages.
He breeds in
Musæum.
faulty as to the Snout and Feet. That of
surd. Almost every where worse describ'd.
That he is
a two-horn'd Animal, says
a two-horn'd Animal, says
all agree, except
who saith he hath but one. Neither of which
is true. The Description likewise given by
out of him by
Musæum
very defective. The best I find is amongst the
Transactions
der, but that comparing it with That I had drawn up before
I met with it, I see some differences.
curious one in
his eyes are drawn somewhat too little. Of the skin it may
be noted, that 'tis every where rough, as it were, with little
round blisters or knobs; on his Head and Back, greater;
on his Legs, Sides and Belly, lesser; of the bigness of Silk
worms Eggs. As also, that his hinder Feet are thicker than
the fore-Feet: and the Heels or hinder Toes as long again,
as the other; whereas in the fore-Feet, they are all of a
length. The shape of his hinder Feet is therefore the better
fitted to assist him in the climbing of Trees; the Heels be
ing like strong Leavers to hoist him up. And the
makeof
his Skin, for the changeableness of his Colours; which
seems to depend on the falling or swelling of the said
Knobs; whereby the light, receiving different Reflections,
produceth different Colours. Of his Colours, saith
liger
b)
b)
196. Sect. 4
so properly said, that they are chang'd, but only the several
Specieshighten'd or deepen'd. He hath a long Tail, as a
Lizard, but slenderer: which, (
c)
c)
lus
he laps round about the Boughs, to keep himself from fall
ing. His Feet also are all made where with to take fast hold.
Uromastix, vel Cau
diverbera. Called also CORDILUS. In
diverbera
Musæum
of CROCODILUS TERRESTRIS. As also in
describ'd him, especially his Tail.
worshipped,) called
MANUCODIATA, i. e. The
Bird of
come; and for their beauty. From his swift flight
to and again, the
Swallow.
and describes them all. The least kind,
the King.
Because (as he saith, from the report of the
flock, he always keeps
higher than the rest.) Besides the
smallness of his Body, in
respect to what his copious Plumes
shew him; the long Feathers
which grow upon his sides
under his Wings, and are extended
thence a great way
beyond his Tail; and the two long Strings
or Quills
which grow upon his Rump, do most remarkably
distin
guish him from all other Birds. He is
elegantly figur'd in
Chamæleon Æreus.
Orbis minor. So called from his
Orbicular figure. Described in most
Musæums. Most
curiously figur'd in that of
long, round, hard, and sharp Spikes or Needles all round
about, almost like those of a
Hedg-Hog; and is a sort of
Porcupine-Fish.
d)
Sect. 1
dyed with a deep
purple. See a curious figure of this in
Musæum, (a) a) Conchilium Muricatum. This Shell, saith
b)
b)
as
a Trumpet, both in their Wars, and in Hunting.
Nautilus lævis. This
sort is brown
on the Back, and black on the Belly. Curiously
figur'd both
them, whereof
one is near ¼ of a yard long.
Echinometra
Aristotelis. See the Description hereof in
all the other kinds; from whence
its Name. This here is
near ½ a foot long. Its Figure
is not orbicular, but comes
near an oval or flatish Heart.
Concha Margaritisera. See
a true, and good Figure hereof in
is naturally within of the same colour with that of a Pearl.
b)
Quoted
by
by
tius
It is sometimes seen with a pearly Knob growing within it,
as in this here, near the centre. But the Pearls themselves
grow within the Animal: within the Flesh (as
c)
Philos.
Trans. N.
101
(
b) affirms) as that sort of Kernel in a
Hog, called
Grando.
Although more probably in the Stomach, as
Bezoar, and
the like, in other Animals. (
c) As Eggs in the Belly of a
Pullet, saith
d)
d)
.
Voyage
Voyage
near the Island
seven pounds. (
e)
e)
On. Zoic
Calceolarius 's
Musæum
an inch and ½ broad in the middle, flat, and somewhat
sharp at both ends.
Bauhinus
Figure hereof both out of
Avellana Indica. 'Tis also curiously figur'd in
but with the same Name. And with the same, described
by
Nut.
Whereas in truth it is the Stone of a kind of Fruit like a
great
Peach, and bigger; in which there are commonly
two of these Stones.
this and the Tree tolerably well described by
(
b)
b)
Ind
BoysHead of ten or twelve
years old, somewhat oblong, with a circular Ridge toward
the top. Now all over, without and within of a dark or
blackish colour. The sides extraordinary warm, being an
inch thick. Within, divided into four Quarters. In each
of which (saith
But here they are wanting. Described also in part, and
figur'd, in
c)
c)
Ind. lib. 4
the Name of
Amygdala dell' Anidi.
Nut-kind, not bigger than a Physical Pill; a little flattish
on that part which grows to the Husk. Very hard. And
of a shining colour, like that of
red Coral. Described (
b)
b)
also by
. (Calceolarius 's Mu
sæum
sæum
c)
c)
Castanea purgatrix. Well
described and figur'd in
. (Calceolarius 's Musæum
e)
e)
Figure in
f)
f)
lib. 3. c. 116
Fructus Indicus decussatus) not so good. 'Tis a blackish
Fruit, about an inch and ¼ long, almost square, and pretty
flat. But that which is most observable, is the double
Sinus
which compasseth it both by the length and breadth, as if
it had been girded across with a string. And, as it were, a
Crescent on that side, by which it grows to the Shell.
Name of the Tree it self, growing principally in
distinguishes a lesser sort, from the Greater, orBrasile .
Piso
Ahoa
guacu, the Tree whereon this Fruit groweth. Of a tri
guacu
angular Figure, almost like a little
Pouch; about an inch
Chesnut
colour, and now made hollow, the
Kernelbeing pick'd
out; and a hole cut on the top for that purpose. Figur'd
in
, and others; but more neatly in
Bauhinus ,
Piso
rius
the Beans enclosed. It
differs from the former in being
black, and in the number of
its Cells, which are three.
The Bean is somewhat Oval, and
wrinkled, and having
a Seat which reaches almost its whole
compass. See a good
Figure hereof in
MUM, figur'd by
others with the Name of the
Middle Cardamum. The Plant
it self, both Lesser, and Greater, described and figur'd by
a)
a)
c. 36
it will. The Lesser grows about a yard high, with a joynted
Stalk, like a
Reed. But bears its Spikes, with the Flower
and Seed, near the Root. The Greater grows two yards
in height, the Stalk not joynted, with a Spike of Flowers
at the top, somewhat like to that of a
Jacynth. Both of
them plentiful in
and as
broad. Incrustated as the former. Of one of these
Fans, and about this bigness, see an
elegant Figure in
lariusMusæum. (a)a)
Echinites albus. Given by
Sig
r
several Names, but confounded by Authors. They all
agree, in having some likeness to the shell of the
Button-
Fish. This resembles that most with all small prickles.
Fish
Of a white colour. Not very hard, and dissoluble, with
Acids. See an excellent Figure hereof in
Musæum
Figur'd in
both under the Name of a Petrify'd Serpent.
Conchites miscella
neus. Composed of petrify'd shells, both of the Turbina
neus
ted, and the Bivalvous kinds, beded in a kind of gritty
Lime-Stone. In
(Calceolarius 's
Musæum
a)
a)
p. 317
this, in the form of a
Choping-Knife, but without a Name.
Another in
b)
b)
c. 25
Musæum
Ostracomorphos Lapis. Not
properly,
Lapis, as being part of a
Rock:nor, by the former
word, sufficiently expressing the mixture of shells therein.
'Tis pleasant, especially with a Glass, to see the wrought
Work
on the surface of these Stones. In which the
small
and curious Striæ which
run by the length, answer to the
Fibers, or the warp: and those which are transversly
as it were interwoven; to the Parenchymous
Fibers, or
Woofe of a Plant. A more particular
explication of which
real Work in all
Plants, hath been by me elsewhere given. (a)a) See the
Authors
Book
Trunks
that
Roots
Flintnaturally adorned with the
Images of several epitomiz'd or minute TREES. There is
the figure of a fair one like to this in
sæum
because it
hath no Undulations, but Plates only. All
very
thin and sharp, and radiated, to the circumference, after
the manner of those in a common Mushroon; excepting,
that there they stand
underneath, here above. This sort is
curiously figur'd in
Gem hath its Name
from the opinion of its being an Amulet
against Drunken
ness. This Rock consisteth of angular pointed and contigu
ous Crystals; growing from
both sides the Matrix, in
wards, where their Points meet, and are all closely indented.
Some of them seem to be Pentagonal.
Several are Conick
from the Points towards the Roots. These are well
tinctur'd, but the Roots are all white, or rather Diaphanous
and colourless. As also is the Matrix,
or inward part of it;
yet not so clear. The shell over all,
flat, opacous, and of a
redish brown. There is the Figure of a
very fair one in
a pale Golden colour, and semiperspicuous. Sent from
a)
Sect. 2. p. 130