Alexandre Claude  is a first-year PhD History researcher at the EUI. His research concerns the knowledge of stones during the early modern period. He focuses on cabinets and collections of stones between the end of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century, mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and the Italian […]

The Stibbert Museum (ill. 1), located in the outskirts of Florence, is today a true jewel, hidden from the tourist tropes and therefore not a necessary “must” on the map of the city. It is a pity, because this museum, the personality of its creator, and the unique collection of applied arts, including those of […]