Bruno Tozzi (27 November 1656 - 29 January 1743) was an Italian monk, botanist and mycologist. A member of the Vallombrosan Order, he was a mentor for

Pier Antonio Micheli Pier Antonio Micheli (December 11, 1679 – January 1, 1737) was a noted Italian botanist, professor of botany in Pisa, curator of the Orto Botanico di Firenze, author of ''Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita''. He discover ...

who named the plant genus '' Tozzia'' in his honour. Tozzi was born in

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and his father Francesco di Simone Tozzi came from

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. He was ordained in the Vallombrosan Order on May 5, 1676. He took an interest in the study of nature, travelling into the Alps and across Italy, collecting natural history specimens. Along with Micheli he took an interest in the fungi and described many species with illustrations. His manuscript ''Sylva fungorum'' is preserved at the Bibliotheca Nazionale, Florence. Tozzi was elected a

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in 1715 and corresponded with

James Petiver James Petiver (c. 1665 – c. 2 April 1718) was a London apothecary, a fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his specimen collections in which he traded and study of botany and entom ...

Hans Sloane Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Mu ...

and other naturalists of the period. He was a founder of the Società Botanica Fiorentina. He lived a solitary life as a monk and died in Vallombrosa.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tozzi, Bruno 1656 births 1743 deaths 17th-century Italian botanists Fellows of the Royal Society People from the Province of Arezzo Pre-Linnaean botanists 18th-century Italian botanists