Bartolomeo Maranta

Bartolomeo Maranta (* 1500 in Venosa , † March 24, 1571 in Molfetta ) was an Italian doctor and botanist .

Life

Bartolomeo Maranta began studying medicine in Naples . To complete his studies, he moved to Pisa , where he was a student of Luca Ghini .

From 1554 to 1556 he worked in Gian Vincenzo Pinelli's plant garden, which later became the botanical garden in Naples ( Orto Botanico di Napoli ).

With many of his contemporaries, B. Gabriele Falloppio , Ulisse Aldrovandi and Pietro Andrea Mattioli , he was in correspondence. Most of the little information that is available about him comes from these letters.

Charles Plumier named the genus arrowroots (Maranta) of the arrowroot family (Marantaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

De aquae, Neapoli, in Luculliano scaturientis (quam ferream vocant) metallica materia, ac viribus . Venice 1559.
Methodi cognoscendorum Simplicium libri tres, cum indice copioso . Venice 1559.
Lucullianarium Quaestionum… Basel 1664.
Novum herbarium sive methodus cognoscendorum omnium simplicium, non solum purgantium, sed quoque astringentium, & variantium. Opus exactum ab auctoribus omnibus, quos in re herbaria ad hunc usque diem scripserunt, & in unum volumen redactum, ad studiosorum commoditatem. Cum indice copioso . Venice 1571.
Della Theriaca et del Mithridato . Venice 1572.

Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer: History of botany . Volume 4, Königsberg 1857, pp. 415-418.
Aldo Mieli: In: Gli scienziati italiani dall'inizio del Medio evo ai nostri giorni: repertorio biobibliografico dei filosofi, matematici, astronomi, fisici, chimici, naturalisti, biologi, medici, geografi italiani, diretto da compi mieli Mieli numerosi scienziati, storici e bibliografi . Rome 1923.