{"id":2035,"date":"2017-07-20T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T07:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.villaalme.it\/girolamo-bruni-silkworms-scientist\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:28:16","slug":"girolamo-bruni-silkworms-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/girolamo-bruni-silkworms-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Girolamo Bruni, the silkworm scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archpriest of Mansu\u00e8, born in Ceneda in 1720, Pre\u2019 Bruni spent a good part of his eighty two years observing, studying, analysing and improving, not only how silkworms were bred but also how to improve the mulberry tree cultivation methods. He did it with a charitable heart, to increase production and, with his research and teachings, lessoning the problems his parishioners had to face.<\/p>\n<p>The result of his work is a voluminous manuscript, sum of seventeenth century agronomical knowledge in this eld, now conserved in Treviso Town Library.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1158 alignleft\" src=\"\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16-300x257.png\" alt=\"schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01-04-16\" width=\"322\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16-768x657.png 768w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16-1030x881.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16-705x603.png 705w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16-450x385.png 450w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.04.16.png 1298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1165 alignleft\" src=\"\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41-300x276.png\" alt=\"schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01-07-41\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41-768x707.png 768w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41-1030x948.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41-705x649.png 705w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41-450x414.png 450w, https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermata-2016-12-12-alle-01.07.41.png 1086w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archpriest of Mansu\u00e8, born in Ceneda in 1720, Pre\u2019 Bruni spent a good part of his eighty two years observing, studying, analysing and improving, not only how silkworms were bred but also how to improve the mulberry tree cultivation methods. He did it with a charitable heart, to increase production and, with his research and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villaalme.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}