May 4, 2022 Luca Ghini, Charlotte Turner Smith, Maud Grieve, Margaret Leland Goldsmith, The Little Library Year by Kate Young, and Gail Carriger

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1556 Death of Luca Ghini ("Gee-nee"), Italian physician and botanist.

Luca is remembered for creating the first recorded herbarium and the first botanical garden in Pisa, Italy.

Historical accounts indicate he was an outstanding and beloved botany teacher at the university in Bologna. By 1527, Luca was giving lectures on medicinal plants and essentially teaching what is considered the first…