Pietro Arduino

Pietro Arduino (18 July 1728, in Caprino Veronese – 13 April 1805, in Padua) was an Italian botanist. The standard author abbreviation Ard. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Pietro Arduino

The geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795) was his brother, and the agriculturalist Luigi Arduino (1750–1833) was his son.

Selected works

  • Animadversionum botanicarum specimen; 1759 and 1764
  • Memorie di osservazioni e di sperienze sopra la cultura e gli usi di varie plante; 1766

Sources

  • Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold, eds. Zander Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen; 13th ed. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1984 ISBN 3-8001-5042-5
gollark: Being that excessively attached to it sounds bad, especially now.
gollark: Although I probably won't actually be *in* the workforce for... five years or so now, so who knows what it'll be like by then.
gollark: I would really prefer a company which actually does good, interesting stuff and contains sane people over one which makes me participate in stupid stuff because of "spiritual goodness".
gollark: You can cynically look at this as them trying to make employees develop emotional attachments to the company, too, to make them more exploitable or something.
gollark: I am NEVER working anywhere which randomly overritualizes stuff like this, probably, unless I just forget by the time I actually look for a job, which is likely.
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