Unit BOTANY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Course
- Agricultural and environmental sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 80988609
- Curriculum
- Verde ornamentale
- Teacher
- Domizia Donnini
- Teachers
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- Domizia Donnini
- Lara Reale (Codocenza)
- Daniela Gigante (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 27 ore - Domizia Donnini
- 27 ore (Codocenza) - Lara Reale
- 27 ore (Codocenza) - Daniela Gigante
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Introduction of the relationship between botany and cultural heritage. Botanical representation: phytoiconography. Basic principles of biodeterioration. Botany and the history of gardens: origin, functions and types; current role of the Botanical Gardens. Maintenance and management of gardens. Basic knowledge of general botany and physiology of ornamental plants. The modifications of the corm in species of ornamental interest. Reproductive mechanisms. Systematics of the main families of plants used in gardens. Botanical collections and herbaria.
- Reference texts
- Lecture notes provided by Teacher.
G. Caneva, M. P. Nugari, O. Salvadori (a cura di) La biologia vegetale per i beni culturali. Vol. 1 Biodeterioramento e conservazione Firenze, 2007.
G. Caneva (a cura di) La biologia vegetale per i beni culturali. Vol. 2 Conoscenza e valorizzazione. Firenze, 2005.
W. S. Judd, C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, Botanica sistematica. Un approccio filogenetico. Piccin-Nuova Libraria, 2019.
Scientific papers provided by Teacher. - Educational objectives
- The main knowledge acquired will be:
- Characteristics of the main groups of plants cultivated in the gardens and in ornamental greenery in general.
- Knowledge of the role of gardens and the changes over time in the use of green spaces; historical and technical-scientific knowledge on the preparation and conservation of botanical collections.
The main skills (ie the ability to apply the knowledge acquired) will be:
- the ability to choose the most suitable plants for the different types of ornamental green, based on the cultivation environment;
- the ability to relate to other skills, by making available knowledge of applied botany in different sectors: archaeobotany, biodeterioration, ethnobotany, phytoiconography, historical and current plant collections;
- basic ability to approach the problems concerning the management of a garden. - Prerequisites
- Good knowledge of general and systematic botany is required
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, educational visits and exercises. During the lectures the theoretical concepts planned in the course program will be provided. Exercises and educational visits will include visits (including virtual ones) to historical and thematic gardens, botanical gardens and herbaria.
- Other information
- Office hours: by appointment with the teacher.
Contacts:
Dott.ssa Domizia Donnini
tel. 075 5856434, email domizia.donnini@unipg.it.
Address: Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Learning verification modality
- The exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussion of 30 min on the topics covered during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts. For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- Introduction to the relationship between botany and cultural heritage. Biodeterioration and the role of plant organisms in cultural heritage. Basic concepts of Archaeobotanics: principles of finding and identifying plant macrorests in archaeological excavations.
Botany and the history of gardens. The birth and evolution of the concept of garden: from the Egyptian gardens to the “Horti simplicium”, or gardens of “simple plants”, to Botanical Gardens. Current role of the Botanical Gardens. Maintenance and management of gardens.
The botany of ornamental plants. Reminder of general botany and physiology of ornamental plants. The modifications of the corm in the plants. Reproductive mechanisms with particular attention to pollination and fruit morphology and cyto-histology. Phylogenetic Systematics according to the APG classification. Main families of plants used in gardens. Genera and species of ornamental plants. Roses: history and evolution, cultivated groups.
Botanical collections and herbaria: origin, development and current role. Herbaria as institution for botanical knowledge. The role of drawing in the dissemination of botanical knowledge in the various historical periods; current functions of botanical drawings.
Practical lessons: examples of application of the acquired knowledge with respect to cultural heritage through analysis of historical plant remains, visits (including virtual ones) to historical and thematic gardens, to the medieval garden of DSA3, to botanical gardens, herbaria and historical collections.