VaticanNews—Hypericum, Mallow, Dandelion, Wormwood, Belladonna, Cardamom, Rosewater or Chicory Water. The names of ancient remedies, distillates, syrups, painted in blue on finely decorated ceramic vessels, are reviewed as one gazes along the wooden shelves of the Spezieria of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, set up in a hall of the Vatican Museums recently opened to the…
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