Joseph de Tournefort’s Institutiones rei herbariae

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1700: Joseph de Tournefort‘s “Institutiones rei herbariae” is a magnificently illustrated three-volume work on Mediterranean plant life.

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November 29, 1924: Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini died of throat cancer in Brussels, Belgium. News of his death reached Rome during a performance of ‘La bohème’, and the opera was immediately stopped, with the orchestra playing Chopin’s Funeral March for the stunned audience. Considered second only to Verdi in opera composition, he gave us such enduring classics as ‘La bohème’, ‘Tosca’, and ‘Madama Butterfly’, all of which are among the important operas played as standards.