Name Bartolomeo Ambrosini | Died 1657 | |
Bartolomeo Ambrosini (Bologna, 1588 - Bologna, Feb. 3, 1657) was an Italian botanist, physician and naturalist, for over thirty years prefect of the Botanical Garden of Bologna and editor of many of the posthumous works of Ulisse Aldrovandi.
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Biography
Older brother of Giacinto (1605 - 1672), also a botanist, Bartholomew had a degree in philosophy and medicine in 1610 at the University of Bologna. Here, as early as 1612, he taught at first logic, then medicine, finally botany from 1619, and after Uterverio died he managed the botanical garden, which was dedicated from 1620 to 1657. When the plague affected Italy in 1630, he worked hard as a volunteer doctor for his city, also issuing a handbook entitled Method and easy to preserve, it is care of plague.
His name is particularly tied to the curatorship - entrusted by the Senate of Bologna - of some of the major works left unfinished by Aldrovandi, including the History of snakes and dragons in 1639 [2] and the History of monsters of 1642, to which is added his Chronicles, under the title of 'Paralipomena accuratissima historiae omnium animalium". But Ambrosini also published works of his own, especially of medical and pharmacopeic.
Linnaeus dedicated to him the genus Ambrosinia of the family Araceae, and the Archiginnasio of Bologna keeps two monuments (an epigraph and a bust) in his memory.