Roberto de Visiani

Roberto de Visiani (1800-1878) (in Croatian: Robert Visiani) was an Italian botanist, naturalist and scholar. He is seen as one the fathers of modern botany in Italy.

Roberto de Visiani
Roberto de Visiani. Lithograph by A. Rochini.
Born(1800-04-09)9 April 1800
Šibenik, Dalmatia
Died4 May 1878(1878-05-04) (aged 78)
Padua
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Vis.

The standard author abbreviation Vis. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Early career

He was the son of a physician and a close friend of his fellow citizen Niccolò Tommaseo. After finishing his studies in his hometown and the seminary in Split, he entered in 1817 the University of Padua, from which he graduated in Medicine in 1822.

Since he was a boy he had various interests, from literature to science, but his predilection went immediately to botany, at the time considered a branch of medicine: in Padua his interest focused on the local botanical garden, to which he devoted himself as a student.

After serving as a university assistant, he returned to Dalmatia in 1827 to work as a doctor (in Šibenik, Drniš, Kotor and Budva). At the same time, he maintained a correspondence with his Paduan master, professor Giuseppe Antonio Bonato who during the same years tried to establish the autonomous teaching of botany in the Paduan university.

De Visiani wrote of some plants to the director of the "Gazzetta Botanica" ("Botanische Zeitung") of Regensburg, and shortly thereafter he was invited to collaborate with the magazine. Between 1828 and 1830 he published the classification and description of over fifty species discovered by him.

Works available online
  • Della origine ed anzianità dell'Orto botanico di Padova, Venezia 1839
  • Illustrazione delle piante nuove o rare dell'Orto botanico di Padova, Padova 1840
  • L'Orto botanico di Padova nell'anno MDCCCXLII, Padova 1842
  • Flora Dalmatica, Lipsia, v. 1 (1842), v. 2 (1847), v. 3 (1852)
  • Florae dalmaticae supplementum alterum: adjectis plantis in Bosnia, Hercegovina et Montenegro crescentibus, pars prima (Padova, 1876), pars secunda (posthuma, 1881?)
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gollark: It could probably exist in basically any with sufficiently... something... rules, given a broad enough definition of "life".
gollark: I read somewhere that if we had four dimensions and similar physics things would be too unstable to work, and two dimensions doesn't really provide enough connectivity to do much, but I don't think you can give much of a meaningful answer beyond "it just is".
gollark: By "long", I mean "more than about 3 minutes", unless they are very interesting all the way through.

References
  1. IPNI.  Vis.
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