230px, Ottavio Ottavi. Ottavio Ottavi (15 August 1849 – 12 January 1893) was an Italian

oenologist Oenology (also enology; ) is the science and study of wine and winemaking. Oenology is distinct from viticulture, which is the science of the growing, cultivation, and harvesting of grapes. The English word oenology derives from the Greek word ' ...

Biography

Ottavi was born in

Sandigliano Sandigliano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about southwest of Biella. Sandigliano borders the following municipalities: Borriana, Cerrione, Gagliani ...

. His father Giuseppe Antonio Ottavio was an

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, and his brother Edoardo, editor of the journal ''Il Coltivatore'', was also seen as a significant figure in the development of nineteenth-century Italian viticulture.Coulet, pp. 509 and 714. He was the author of various treatises and monographs, including ''Enologia teorico-pratica'' (1898), and was the founder of the ''Giornale vinicolo italiano''. His ''Inno ai Krumiri'' (1886) is a "hymn" to the krumiro, a type of biscuit created in Casale Monferrato, the town where he largely lived and where he died in 1893.

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of his commemorative plaque, sculpted by

Leonardo Bistolfi Leonardo Bistolfi (14 March 1859 – 2 September 1933) was an Italian sculptor and an important exponent of Italian Symbolism. Biography Bistolfi was born in Casale Monferrato in Piedmont, north-west Italy, to Giovanni Bistolfi, a sculptor in ...

, in Casale Monferrato. People from the Province of Biella People from Casale Monferrato Oenologists Italian male writers 1849 births 1893 deaths {{italy-writer-stub