Carlo Vittadini (11 June 1800, in
Bertonico – 20 November 1865, in
Milan
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) was an Italian
doctor
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Personal titles
* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
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and
mycologist
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.
Life
He studied in Milan and at the University of Pavia, where he attended the classes given by Giuseppe L. Moretti (1782–1853). He became a doctor of medicine in 1826 with a thesis entitled ''Tentamen mycologicum seu Amanitarum '' where he described 14 species of the genus ''
Amanita
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''.
Outside of several publications on diseases of
silkworm
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s, he specialised in
obstetrics
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, working in Milan. He is the author of several important works on Italian mushroom species.
Works
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* ''Monographia tuberacearum'' (Rusconi, Milan, 1831) - Describes 65
species
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, of which 51 were new.
* ''Descrizione dei funghi mangerecci più comuni dell'Italia e de'velenosi che possono co'medesimi confondersi'' (1835) - Describes 56 species, of which 15 were new.
* ''Monographia Lycoperdineorum'' (1842) - Completes his 1831 study and describes 50 species, of which 23 were new.
* ''Trattato sui funghi mangerecci più conosciuti e paragoni con quelli velenosi con cui possono essere confusi'' (1844) - Written at the request of the Italian government, which was concerned over the number of incidents of mushrooms poisonings.
Taxa described
*''
Agaricus silvicola''
*''
Amanita echinocephala'' (Vittad.) Quel.
[''Mém. Soc. Émul. Montbéliard, Sér. 2'' 5: 321 (1872)]
*The
Shaggy parasol
Shaggy parasol is the common name for three closely related species of mushroom, ''Chlorophyllum rhacodes'' (or ''rachodes''), ''C. olivieri'' and ''C. brunneum'', found in North America, Europe and Southern Africa (the latter species is als ...
(''Chlorophyllum rhacodes'')
*''
Rhizopogon vulgaris''
*Several species of ''
Tuber
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''
*''
Amanita vittadinii'' (Moretti) Vitt. is named in his honour.
References
External links
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1800 births
1865 deaths
Italian mycologists