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Nicolò Bertucci Contarini
Count Nicolò Bertolucci Contarini (26 September 1780 – 16 April 1849) was an Italian nobleman and amateur naturalist. He collected plants and insects around Venice and published several catalogues. Contarini was born in Venice in a noble family, the son of Senator Bertucci Paolo. He was sent to the Barnabite college in Udine where he received a classical education. In his private time he began to study natural history through direct field studies and collected plants from the region and built up a herbarium. From 1830 he began to write about insects in agriculture and in 1840 he was inducted into the Venetian institute of sciences, letters and arts. He published a catalogue of the birds and insects of Padova and Venice. He described several species of Cecidomyiid flies including one that he found on the wings of birds. He also took an interest in marine biology, describing new species of ''Actinia'' and sea anemones in 1841. Along with Giuseppe Meneghini and Giovanni Zanardi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 438 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). As of 2025, 249,466 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune of Venice, of whom about 51,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini
Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini (30 July 1811, Padua – 29 January 1889, Pisa) was an Italian botanist, geologist and paleontologist. Biography Meneghini became interested in science under his school teacher Pietro Melo. Following school he joined the medical course at the University of Padua in 1829-30 and obtained his medical doctorate in 1834 with a thesis on the cephalo-spinal axis and the following year, he became an assistant to Giuseppe Antonio Bonato, the chair of botany. In 1839 he was appointed professor of preparatory sciences at Padua, a position he maintained up until 1848, when he was removed from his post due to his association with revolutionaries during the First Italian War of Independence, in which he followed the leadership of his brother Andrea. He then went into exile to Bologna followed by Pistoia and then Florence. In 1849 he became a professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Pisa, where the position had become vacant after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
