Paolo Boccone

Paolo Silvio Boccone (born April 24, 1633 in Palermo , † December 22, 1704 in Altofonte ) was an Italian Cistercian , doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Boccone ".

Portrait of Paolo Boccone published in his work Museo di fisica ... from 1697

Life

Paolo Boccone's botanical interest was aroused during a visit to the Botanical Garden in Messina , which the Roman doctor Pietro Castelli founded there in 1635. He also studied with him.

He was the court botanist to the Tuscan Grand Duke Ferdinand II and his son Cosimo III. Boccone toured Sicily , Malta , Italy , Corsica , the Netherlands , England and Poland . He was a professor at the University of Padua . In 1696 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In the work Museo di piante rare ... published in 1697, he describes rare plants from Sicily, Malta, Corsica, Piedmont and Germany . When he entered the monastery, he took the name Silvio . Boccone was highly respected by his contemporaries and was in contact with many European natural scientists. The French botanist Charles Plumier studied with him.

Honors

Plumier named the plant genus Bocconia of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts

Research and observations naturelles . Amsterdam 1674 ( online ).
Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. e theatro Sheldoniano . Oxford 1674. Edited by Robert Morison ( online ).
Museo di fisica e di esperienze variato, e decorato di osservazioni naturali, note medicinali . Venice 1697 ( online ).
Museo di piante rare della Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte, e Germania ... Venice 1697.

literature

Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . Volume 1, 1750.
Hermann Josef Roth : Paolo Silvio Boccone (1633-1704) - monk and botanist. A Cistercian as a source for Linnaeus . In: Cistercian Chronicle . Volume 117, number 3-4, 2010, pp. 319-330.

Web links

Commons : Paolo Boccone - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Paolo Boccone at the IPNI
L'herbier de Paolo Boccone (fr)

Individual evidence

↑ Member entry of Paolo Boccone (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 25, 2016.

^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 35.

^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.

↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 228.

personal data
SURNAME	Boccone, Paolo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boccone, Paolo Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH	Palermo
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1704
Place of death	Altofonte

[1] Member entry of Paolo Boccone (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 25, 2016.

[2] Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 35.

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

[4] Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 228.