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“ON SUGAR ART”; OR, WHY DID FIFTEENTH CENTURY ITALIAN PHARMACISTS MAKE CANDY?
 This article looks at the production of candy by late mediaeval Italian pharmacists. The author discusses roots and shows its development was connected to use medical products based on honey, sugar, spices fruits. For many centuries such were treated as medicines only end Middle Ages did people start perceive them candy. Pharmacists from nations, known speziari, central process. They had access a range imported Orient, know-how experience inherited their ancestors own acquired skills. In effect, they started producing base existing, sweet products. richest most helpful source for study is De artificium zuchari, thirteenth chapter Lumen apothecariorum, work fifteenth-century Piedmont physicist pharmacist, Quirico de Augustis.