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Antonio Bertoloni (February 8, 1775 in 
Sarzana
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– April 17, 1869 in Bologna
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) was an Italian physician
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and botanist
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who made extensive studies of Italian plants. He also collected notable samples of Central America
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n flora.
Biography
He studied medicine and botany at theUniversity of Pavia
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, afterwards (1796) continuing his medical education in Genoa
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. For a period of time he practiced medicine in his home town of Sarzana. In 1811 he returned to Genoa, where he served as a professor of physics at the Imperial Lyceum. In 1815 he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Bologna
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.
His son Giuseppe
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from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף.
It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it.
The feminine form of the name is Giuse ...
(1804-1874) was a botanist and entomologist in Bologna.
Tributes
* ''Bertolonia
''Bertolonia'' is a genus consisting of 14 species of pretty, dwarf, creeping, tender perennials, native to tropical South America. These herbaceous plants are grown for their colorful, velvety, ornamental foliages, vary from shimmery white with ...
'', botanical genus from the family Melastomataceae
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.
* Plants with the specific epithet of ''bertolonii'', an example being '' Ophrys bertolonii'' (Bertoloni's bee orchid).
Selected works
His major work, "Flora Italica; sistens plantas in Italia et in insulis circumstantibus sponte nascentes", was issued in several volumes from 1833 to 1854. This was followed by a monograph on Italiancryptogam
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s called "Flora italica cryptogama" (1858). Other noteworthy publications by Bertoloni include:
* "Rariorum Liguriae plantarum", 1803.
* "Mantissa plantarum florae alpium Apunanarum", 1832.
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* "Florula guatimalensis sistens plantas nonnullas in Guatimala sponte nascentes", 1840.
Other works include:
* ''Elenchus plantarum vivarum quas cum aliis vivis plantis commutandas exhibet Hortus Botanicus Archigymnasii Bononiensi'' 1820.
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He published many papers, in both Italian and Latin, in the journals ''Nuovi annali delle scienze naturali'' (1834-1854), and ''Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis'' (1834-1849) and its successor ''Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna'' (from 1850 onward). A large number of the papers in the second and third of those journals were part of an extended series entitled ''Miscellanea Botanica'' (starting in 1842), which included everything from the discussion of botanical references in Biblical and Ancient Greek and Roman sources through the systematisation of published knowledge to the formal description of new species.
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