Saverio Manetti

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Florence Botanical Garden (Giardino dei semplici)

Saverio Manetti (born November 12, 1723 in Brozzi, Florence , † November 12, 1784 ibid) was an Italian doctor, ornithologist and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Manetti ".

Life

Ornithologia methodice digesta (1767–76)

Manetti studied with the Piarists in Florence and then at the University of Pisa with the Laurea in Philosophy and Medicine in 1745. He then completed his training at the S. Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, where he was a student of the anatomist Antonio Cocchi (he supervised this in his last illness and did an autopsy after his death, which he published). He was professor of botany at the Botanical Society in Florence, doctor at the Collegio Fiorentino and from 1749 to 1782 director of the Botanical Garden (Giardino dei semplici) founded by Micheli in Florence from 1749 to 1782 and published a catalog of his plants in 1751. He was also secretary and one of the founders (1753) of the Accademia dei Georgofiliin Florence. He was in contact with important scientists of his time, including Carl von Linné , Lazzaro Spallanzani and Albrecht von Haller .

He is known for his monumental natural history of birds in 5 volumes with 600 engravings after watercolors by the clergy (Abbate) Lorenzo Lorenzi and V. Lampredi Vanni. The templates were provided by the collection of Count and Senator Giovanni Gerini.

He first described a genus of climbing plants and lianas from Central America, which were named after him ( Manettia , belonging to the madder family ). Manetti dealt intensively with agriculture and wrote a book on the wines of Tuscany under the pseudonym Villifranchi.

In 1749 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the academies in Montpellier, Göttingen (since 1755), Berlin and the Istituto di Bologna.

From 1770 to 1777 he published the Magazzino toscano and from 1777 to 1782 the Nuovo Magazzino toscano.

Fonts

  • Viridarium Florentinum: sive, Conspectus plantarum quae floruerunt, & semina deterunt hoc anno 1750 in Horto Caesareo Florentino, Florence 1751
  • Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate, Florence, 5 volumes, 1765–1776
  • Oenologia toscana, o sia Memoria sopra i vini ed in specie Toscani, Florence 1773 (under the pseudonym Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi)
  • Delle specie diverse di frumento e di pane siccome della panizzazione e di tutte quelle piante, e parti di esse singolarmente, che in occasione di carestia possono panizzarsi, o per alimento in altra maniera usato possono al pane supplire, Florence 1765
  • Edited by Carl von Linné: Regnum vegetabile iuxta systema naturae in classes, ordines et genera constitutum dello stesso Linneo, Florence 1756

literature

  • Renato Pasta, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Treccani

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Saverio Manetti at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 159.
personal data
SURNAME Manetti, Saverio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist, physician and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1784
Place of death Florence