Castore Durante
Castore Durante (* 1529 in Gualdo Tadino ; † 1590 in Viterbo ) was an Italian doctor and botanist and personal physician to Pope Sixtus V. His Herbario novo was illustrated first by Leonardo Parasole and later by his widow Isabella and with the same woodcuts , but changed text Relaunched for over 100 years.
Honor taxon
Charles Plumier named in his honor the genre Castorea the plant family of the iron herb plants (Verbenaceae). Carl von Linné rejected the name and named the genus Duranta . Philip Miller later took up the generic name Castorea again.
Fonts (selection)
- Herbario novo . 1585.
- Il tesoro della sanità . 1586.
- Herbario novo . Sessa, Venice 1602 ( online ).
Web links
Wikisource: Hortulus Sanitatis - Sources and full texts
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 30.
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 91
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 521.
- ^ Philip Miller: The Gardeners Dictionary . London 1768, 8th edition (without page numbers)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Durante, Castore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1529 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gualdo Tadino |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1590 |
| Place of death | Viterbo |