In his “Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani”, published in Florence in 1723, Michelangelo Tilli lists 4,525 specimens that are kept, according to him, in the Pisan Garden. They are far too many. It is very unlikely that such an array existed in the garden at the time.
The work is illustrated with beautiful plates depicting the specimens and is preceded by a portrait of the author himself, bearing the inscription “The Tilli who visited the shores of Libya and Asia and industriously enriched the noble patrimony of herbs - He is the one that hereby you see. The pureness of his mind, his loyalty - no artifice could adequately reproduce”.
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