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 ...
, and especially famous for the aristocratic and Senatorial family from
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...
. The
Palazzo Aldrovandi in central Bologna was built by the family. Among its famous members are:
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Pompeo Aldrovandi (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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