Michele Tenore (5 May 1780 – 19 July 1861) was an Italian

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

active in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

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. Tenore studied at the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

, receiving his medical degree in 1800. Then he was a friend of botanists

Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo FRS (Grumo Nevano, Kingdom of Naples 10 April 1739Naples 29 October 1799) was an Italian physician, entomologist, botanist and patriot. Professional life Appointed while still young to a botanical professorship, ...

(1739–1799) and

Vincenzo Petagna Vincenzo Petagna (Naples, 17 January 1734 – 6 October 1810) was an Italian biologist, physician and entomologist. He was appointed as director of the small botanical garden pertaining to the Monastery of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto (associate ...

(1734–1810), made numerous botanical excursions into

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...

and particularly Majella, and gave private courses in botany. In 1811, he succeeded Petagna to the university's chair in botany. Tenore helped establish the Botanical Garden of Naples, and became its director in 1810. He also served as president of the

Accademia nazionale delle scienze The Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (), or more formally L'Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, and also called the Accademia dei XL (), is Italy's national academy of science. Its offices are located within the Villino Rosso, at the co ...

, and served as president of the

Accademia Pontaniana The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples during ...

six times from the 1830s through the 1850s. In 1853, he founded the Tenore prize, still awarded from the Accademia Pontaniana.See the section " Tenore prize" in the Accademia Pontaniana entry.

Selected works

* * TENORE M., 1811-38 - Flora Napolitana. Napoli. 1-5. Stamperia Reale, Napoli. Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Napoli. Stamperia Francese, Napoli. Stamperia Francese, Napoli. * TENORE M., 1832 - Memoria sulle peregrinazioni botaniche effettuate nella provincia di Napoli nella primavera del 1825 dal Cavaliere Michele Tenore colle indicazioni di alcune piante da aggiungersi alla Flora Napolitana e la descrizione di una specie di Ononis. Atti R. Accad. Scienze Cl. Fis. e St. Nat., 3: 49-88. * TENORE M., 1843 - Rapporto intorno alle peregrinazioni de' soci ordinari M. Tenore e G. Gussone eseguite in Luglio 1834. Atti R. Accad. Scienze 5(1): 283-290. Napoli 1843 (in collab. con G. Gussone). * TENORE M., 1843 - Osservazioni botaniche raccolte in un viaggio eseguito per diversi luoghi della provincia di Terra di Lavoro e di Abruzzo nell'està del 1834 dai soci Tenore e Gussone. Ibid.: 291-334, 1 tav. Napoli 1843 (In collab. con G. Gussone). * TENORE M., 1846 - Osservazioni intorno all'Erbario Centrale di Firenze (23 settembre 1845). p. 852. Napoli 1846. * TENORE M., 1856 - Una gita all'Isola d'Ischia. Lettera al Sig. N. N. Giornale "L'Iride" 1, n. 20 (estr. pp. 6) Napoli, Tip. Gazzette de' Tribunali ( 14x21.5).

References

Biography (Italian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tenore, Michele 19th-century Italian botanists 1780 births 1861 deaths