40. DAVIDE DOMENICI
Information acquired: 2025
DAVIDE DOMENICI is an academic who published a paper in 2020 entitled Tasting Clay, Testing Clay. Medicinal Earths, Bucarophagy and Experiential Knowledge in Lorenzo Lega. DAVIDE DOMENICI published this work as part of a team: Domenici, Davide. Here is a description of this work: In ,,he following, I identify a group of pottery vases in the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna as samples of bucaros de Indias, the famous â€oescented clays†produced during the 17th century. Starting from this new identification, thispaper reconstructs their cultural biography, tracing it back to the famous museum assembled by the Bolognese Marquee Ferdinando Cospi. The description of the vases provided by Lorenzo Legati in his Museo Cospiano (1677) brings to light two different but related forms ofsensory engagementwith material culture: the curious practice of bucarophagy, that is, the literal consumption of goods circulating through global early modern trade networks, and tongue-testing, a method that Legati employs to ascertain the constituent materials of the vases. Even if this method was, ultimately.