Pietro Assalti Latinized as Petrus Assaltus (23 June 1680 – 29 April 1728) was an Italian botanist, herbalist, physician, naturalist, professor and writer.

Biography

Assalti was born in

Acquaviva Picena Acquaviva Picena is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche. The village lies on a hill over the Valley of Tronto, just a few kilometres from the Adriatic Sea and San Benedetto del Tronto. From th ...

. He studied Latin and at the age of fifteen went to

Fermo Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest hum ...

where he acquired a knowledge of Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. He studied law in Rome and gaining repute as a scholar was chosen by

Pope Clement XI Pope Clement XI ( la, Clemens XI; it, Clemente XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721. Clement XI w ...

and assigned to the

Vatican Library The Vatican Apostolic Library ( la, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, it, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. Formally es ...

. In 1709 he became a professor of botany at the University of Rome, succeeding

Giovanni Battista Trionfetti Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...

. He became a professor of anatomy in 1719. Assalti compiled, edited, and published the works of

Giovanni Maria Lancisi Giovanni Maria Lancisi (26 October 1654 – 20 January 1720) was an Italian physician, epidemiologist and anatomist who made a correlation between the presence of mosquitoes and the prevalence of malaria. He was also known for his studies about c ...

in two volumes in 1718. He annotated

Michele Mercati Michele Mercati (8 April 1541 – 25 June 1593) was a physician who was superintendent of the Vatican Botanical Garden under Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII. He was one of the first scholars to recognise prehistoric ston ...

's book on minerals, ''Metallotheca'' (1717).

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Metallotheca Vaticana Michaelis Mercati
(1719) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Assalti, Pietro 1680 births 1728 deaths 18th-century Italian physicians