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	<title>heaven astrolabe &#187; herbs</title>
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	<description>A traditional astrology blog about Medieval and Renaissance astrology, tradition, astrologers, wandering and fixed stars...</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In the city of simple herbs, with Hildegard and Avicenna</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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In Medieval Latin the word &#8220;medicamentum simplex&#8221; was a single herb used as a medicament while several herbs used together were called a &#8220;medicamentum compositum. &#8220;
From this  Medieval abbeys gardens and later universities gardens where herbs were cultivated for study and medical use were called &#8220;Hortus Simplicium&#8220;, gardens of simple (medicaments).

This old tradition comes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About perfumes, herbs, temperaments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I had the opportunity of visiting in Rome a true  factory of perfumes of antiquity with its products: the factory of Pyrgos in the southern part of the island of Cyprus.
The myth tells us about Venus, the goddess of beauty and love: when she arose from the foam of the sea, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the sabbath of the witches of Benevento</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the rain and with the wind under the Benevento&#8217;s tree (ancient spell)

If every nation has its own witches and devils, the story says from every angle of the world these wicked souls meet  under the walnut of Benevento, an ancient city between the mountains of Sannio, in the heart of  southern Italy.
Romans called this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About winter and phlegm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margherita</dc:creator>
		
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The motion of the Sun   and the Moon -  in the zodiac and in the day causes the generation of all the bodies under the sky.
The kind of generation is determined by the quality of stars: planets, starred images, comets generate all the alterations occurring in primeval qualities, hot and cold, and dry and wet.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first day of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>margherita</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
The legend says that  Numa Pompilius, the successor of Romulus,  in his reform of the Calendar added two months to the  Roman calendar, and fixed the beginning of the year at the first day of the month dedicated to Janus, the God of the doors – janua in Latin, from yana (road) in Sanskrit. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The virtues of Teriaca</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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The formula of Teriaca derives directly from Galen. De Theriaca ad Pisonem was one of the most read and commented parts of Galen texts in the Renaissance. 
.Essendo dunque già nel corpo humano entrato il veneno…hanno stimato i medici rationali che, mettendovi dentro un altro veneno, facilmente si smoverebbe per andare a trovare il suo [...]]]></description>
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