#  Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis, Anazarbei de medica materia (1560) 

 



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**1560**  
1st published image of a fungus where it is possible to identify the genus  
Plate: *Agaricum* \[woodcut\]

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 1500-1577.  
**Commentarii secundo aucti, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis, Anazarbei de medica materia : adiectis quamplurimis plantarum, & animalium imaginibus, quæ in priore editione non habentur...**

\[Venetiis : in officina Valgrisiana, 1554, 1560 printing.\]

*Image Courtesy of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum*

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Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500-1577), an Italian physician and herbalist, served as the personal physician to Emperor Maximilian of Austria. In his herbal *Commentarii in libros sex Pedacii Discoridis...* (1560) he published the first fungi illustrations that can be identified with confidence, that of *Agaricum* as well as an illustration of black and white truffles.



 

##  Additional Resources 

- Harvard Magazine. [Don’t Eat Amanitas. A bad-news mushroom](http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/09/dont-eat-amanitas).
- [Mycological Society of America](http://msafungi.org/).
- [MykoLibri: Mycological Library Christian Volbracht](http://www.mykolibri.de/?lang=en).
- MykoWeb [The Registry of Mushrooms in Works of Art](http://www.mykoweb.com/art-registry/).



 

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