Antonio Turra (25 March, 1730 - 6 September 1796) was an Italian physician and botanist. Antonio was born in

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but studied medicine in the

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. His Venetian wife, Elisabetta Caminer, published biographical entries in a contemporary encyclopedia. Antonio set up a printing house in 1780 in Vicenza. Most of Antonio's publications were botanical treatises. He was honored with memberships in scientific societies throughout Italy and Europe.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 448.

Works

* ''Catalogous plantarum horti Corneliani methodo sexuali dispositus anno MDCCLXXI, atque ab Antonio Turra elaboratus'' * ''Vegetabilia Italiae indígena, methodo linneiano disposita'' * ''Florae italicae prodromus'', catalog of around 1700 Italian

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, classified always following the method of Linnaeus, to which he added the supplement ''Insecta vicentina''. * ''De' modi di procurare la moltiplicazione de' bestiami''

References

* Based on translation from Spanish Wikipedia * https://web.archive.org/web/20090507080003/http://www.anisn.it/vicenza/scuole/botanica/Ragni-Scarlatti/Antonio_Turra.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Turra Antonio 1730 births 1796 deaths 18th-century Italian botanists 18th-century Italian physicians People from Vicenza University of Padua alumni Physicians from the Republic of Venice