Aldrovandi is a family name of the
Emilia-Romagna
egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman)
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in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
, and especially famous for the aristocratic and Senatorial family from
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
. The
Palazzo Aldrovandi in central Bologna was built by the family. Among its famous members are:
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Pompeo Aldrovandi
Pompeo Aldrovandi (23 September 1668 – 6 January 1752) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Biography
Aldrovandi was born on 23 September 1668 in Bologna, then part of the Papal States, and studied law at the local university ...
(1668–1752), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
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Ulisse Aldrovandi
Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history st ...
(1522–1605), an Italian botanist and naturalist, after which the genus ''Aldrovanda'' is named
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Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti
Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti, Count of Viano, LLD, (5 October 1876 – 9 July 1945) was an Italian politician and diplomat. He was educated at the University of Bologna.
Biography
He graduated in Law in 1897 from the University of Bologna and ...
, Count of Viano (1876–1945) Italian politician and diplomat
Other
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Aldrovandi Villa Borghese- a hotel in Rome
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