ABSTRACT
In no other part of Italy were Clusius’s contacts so concentrated, intensive or long-lived as in the Veneto – in the sense of both direct exchanges and indirect information about other garden owners, collectors and naturalists. In the rest of Italy his contacts were fewer and farther between in a geographical sense, and for the most part concentrated in the 1590s and 1600s.1 at, of course, was primarily a result of Pinelli’s role and the way in which Clusius’s network functioned. Clusius’s other Italian contacts were as interesting, however, in terms of their expertise and speci c interests.
