EPISODE #9 CAJEL ORANGE, THE PRIMITIVE SWEET ORANGE
The humanist Andrea Navagero (1483-1529), who was Venetian ambassador to the courts of Charles I during a stay in Spain, wrote a letter from Seville to his friend Ramusio in 1526, in which he refers to some sweet orange trees that he had sent him some time before, destined for the Murano Garden, which Ramusio…