Confalonieri Prints in Treviso

Treviso held ties to Venice during the 13th century and was home to some of the early printers during the Italian Renaissance. It is here that Bartolomeo Confalonieri prints the first copies of Theophrastus's Historia plantarum, which layed the foundation for the study of botany. These prints could now find their way around Italy and Europe; exposing scholars like Leonardo da Vinci to Theophrastus's research.