Fabio Colonna

Portrait of Fabio Colonna from his work Minus cognitarum rariorumque ...

Fabio Colonna (also: Fabius Columna ; * 1567 in Naples ; † 1640 ibid) was an Italian botanist .

Life

Fabio Colonna was the son of Hieronymus Colonna (1534–1586). Trained as a legal scholar, his interest turned rather coincidentally to botany. Suffering from epileptic seizures, he sought help in the books of Dioscorides . He recommends the valerian root as a remedy for his illness. His first work Phytobasanos (1592) was a by-product of his studies of ancient botanists. In 1606, the first part of another work followed under the title Ekphrasis , which was published in full in Rome in 1616. Colonna designed the illustrations for his works himself.

Fabio Colonna was one of the first members of the Regia Lynceorum Academia in Rome .

Dedication names

Charles Plumier named the genus Columnea of the Gesneria family (Gesneriaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name. The specific epithet of the sand crocus Romulea columnae also honors him.

Fonts (selection)

Phytobasanos sive plantarum aliquot historia in qua describuntur diversi generis plantae veriores, ac magis facie, viribúsque respondentes antiquorum Theophrasti, Dioscoridis Plinii, Galeni, aliquorúmque delineationibus, ab aliis plant hucusuctod non animadversium.etqueiam novicus hucusque puemaru, a.etque . Naples 1592 ( online ).
Minus cognitarum rariorumque nostro coelo orientium stirpium ekphrasis: qua non paucae from antiquioribus Theophrasto, Dioscoride, Plinio, Galeno aliisq. descriptae, praeter illas etiam in Phytobasano editas disquiruntur ac declarantur. Item de aquatilibus aliisque nonnullis animalibus libellus… Omnia fideliter ad vivum delineata, atque aeneis-typis expressa cum indice in calce voluminis locupletissimo . Rome 1616 ( online ).
La sambuca lincea overo dell'istromento musico perfetto . Naples 1618.
Thesaurus rerum medicarum novae Hispaniae, seu Plantarum, Animalium, Mineralium Mexicanorum Historia . Rome 1651.
with Johannes Schreck , Johannes Faber (1574–1629) translated, edited, supplemented and commented edition of the work of Francisco Hernandez de Toledo into Latin

literature

Wilfrid Blunt : The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History . Dover Publications, 1994, ISBN 0-486-27265-6 , pp. 87-89 .
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . Volume 1, 1750.

Individual evidence

^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 28.
^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 296.
^ Sandro Pignatti (ed.): Flora d'Italia . Vol. 3. Edagricole, Bologna 2003, ISBN 88-506-2449-2 , pp. 426 (third unaltered reprint of the 1st edition from 1982).

Web links

Literature by and about Fabio Colonna in the catalog of the German National Library
Publications by and about Fabio Colonna im VD 17 .
Entry on Fabio Colonna at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (it)

personal data
SURNAME	Colonna, Fabio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Columna, Fabius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1567
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	1640
Place of death	Naples

[1] Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 28.

[2] Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.

[3] Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 296.

[4] Sandro Pignatti (ed.): Flora d'Italia . Vol. 3. Edagricole, Bologna 2003, ISBN 88-506-2449-2 , pp. 426 (third unaltered reprint of the 1st edition from 1982).