Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti

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Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti (born June 3, 1799 in Terracina , † April 23, 1879 in Rome ) was an Italian botanist specializing in cryptogams , more precisely mosses ( bryology ) and algae . Your botanical author abbreviation is " Fior.-Mazz. ", In bryology the abbreviation" F.-Mazz. " in use.

Live and act

Fiorini lost her mother at an early age, the father took over the education of the only child, in anticipation of the upcoming administrative tasks that could be assigned to a person of her class. She received an education in history, geography, literature and art, as well as philological training in Latin, French, English and German. In her early youth she developed an interest in botany, put on plant collections and found her first teacher in Giambattista Brocchi (1772-1826). Through him she came into contact with other luminaries of the time such as Giuseppe De Notaris (1805–1877), Vincenzo Cesati (1806–1883), Pietro Savi (1811–1871), Antonio Targioni Tozzetti (1785–1856), Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), Louis René Tulasne (1815–1885), Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle (1778–1841) and Wilhelm Philipp Schimper (1808–1880). Encouraged by de Notaris in Genoa, she published her main work Specimen Bryologiae Romanae in 1831 , which had a second edition ten years later.

This publication made a major contribution to stimulating the study of mosses in Italy. Later she turned almost exclusively to the study of freshwater algae, some of which she discovered new. However, she remained connected to the mosses, as can be seen in her last work, the “Florula del Colosseo”, published shortly before her death. This is also illustrated by a small treatise from 1874, which described the new moss Hypnum formianum from the province of Naples. Mazzanti was always anxious to enlarge her moss herbarium, she received shipments from various foreign collectors and still on her sick bed the last gift from a friend from Germany, consisting of Mauritius and Ceylon mosses, according to the reports of her foster daughter, is said to be exclamations of delight have caused her.

In 1829 she married Luca Mazzanti, a lawyer. In 1842 she lost her husband, her father and her only daughter within a year, but found in Contessa Enrichetta Fiorini, the niece of the late botanist Ernesto Mauri , whom she had adopted and raised as a child, a nurse during the illness of the last years of her life. The Countess usually lived in Rome, which she only left during the summer months to live in Terracina, her birthplace. As recently as 1874, at the age of seventy-four, she attended the botanical congress in Florence, where, although she was very attacked by the trip, she maintained personal acquaintances with some foreign, especially German, botanists.

Mazzanti maintained lively intercourse with peers and recognized even the slightest achievements of others in the field of botany. She was a member of various learned societies, such as the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin , the College of Horticulture in Brussels, the Agricultural Academy in Pesaro , the Tiberina Academy of Rome, the Accademia economico-agraria dei Georgofili Florence, the Pontifical Academy , the Leopoldina and others.

Works

  • Note sopra poche piante da aggiungersi al Prodromo della Fiera Romana. Qiorn. Arcadico. Rome 1823
  • Appendice al Prodromo della Flora Romana.
  • Specimen Bryologiae Romanae. Rome 1831, 1841.
  • Sopra una nuova diatomea. Atti dell 'Acc. dei Nuovi Lincei. 1856.
  • Sopra due nuove alghe delle acque albule. Rome 1857.
  • Sulla identità del Nostoc con il Collema. Rome 1857.
  • Sunto di un rapporto del ch. sig. Montagne alla soc. imp. cent, di Agricoltura. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 185
  • De novis mycrophyceis. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1860.
  • Rettificazione di una nuova diatomea. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1861.
  • Oscillarina, delle miniere di Corneto. Commentario della Soc. critt. it. N. 3. Genoa, 1862.
  • Microfice osservate nelle acque minerali di Terracina. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1863
  • Osservazione sulla materia colorante della Calotrix, janthiphora e diagnosi di una nuova microfìcea. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1864.
  • Sopra una nuova specie di almodictyon e aopra un singolare organiamo di alga unicellulare. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1865.
  • Continuazione e fine delle Microficee delle acque minerali di Terracina. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1867.
  • Sulla Cladophora viandrina del Kùtzing. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1868.
  • Cenno sulla vegetazione della caduta delle Marmore in una rapida escursione di luglio. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1869.
  • Nota critica sull abnormalità di un organismo crittogamico. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, 1871.
  • Sunto dell 'opuaculo sulle ricerche anatomiche e fisioliche dei funghì dell' Ab. JB Carnoy. Atti Acc.dei n. Lincei, 1872.
  • Sopra due nuove specie crittogamiche. Atti Acc. dei n. Lìncei, 1874.
  • Fiorala del Colosseo. Atti Acc. dei n. Lincei, An. 1875-76-77-78.

literature

  • CH Knoblauch: Leopoldina - Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . Booklet XVI - No. 1–2, January 1880, Halle (Saale), p. 13

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author entry at the IPNI
  2. ↑ Author entry at Tropicos ( Missouri Botanical Garden )

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personal data
SURNAME Fiorini Mazzanti, Elisabetta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiorini-Mazzanti, Elisabetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Terracina
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1879
Place of death Rome