Global Aldrovandi. Exchanging Nature and Material Culture in the Early Modern World

Global Aldrovandi: Exchanging Nature and Material Culture in the Early Modern World, co-edited by Davide Domenici and Lia Markey, situates the polymath Ulisse Aldrovandi's encyclopedic project within the framework of "connected histories," examining how a largely sedentary Bolognese scholar assembled a genuinely global archive of texts, images, and specimens through correspondence and exchange networks. The volume's twelve essays trace Aldrovandi's engagement with materials from Egypt, Northern and Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, highlighting both the reach and the structural gaps in his geography of knowledge.