Francesco Baglietto (2 September 1826 – 24 February 1916) was an Italian physician and botanist, known for his studies on cryptogams, particularly on lichens.
Francesco Baglietto | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Francesco Baglietto in the last decade of the 19th century | |
| Born | July 2, 1826 |
| Died | February 24, 1916 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Lichenology |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Bagl.[1] |
Biography
editFrancesco Baglietto was born in Voltri, Italy, on 2 September 1816.[2] A pupil of Giuseppe De Notaris, Baglietto specialized in the study of lichens, a subject on which he left numerous publications.[3] Together with de Notaris and Vincenzo de Cesati, they founded the Società crittogamologica italiana (Italian Cryptogamic Society), which published the journal Commentario della Società crittogamologica italiana ("Commentary of the Italian Cryptogamic Society"). The society had the aim of creating and publishing the Italian cryptogamic herbarium, intended to be an all-encompassing collection of all types of cryptogams, including mosses, lichens, ferns, and mushrooms. Together with V. de Cesati and G. de Notaris, Baglietto published two series of the exsiccata work Erbario crittogamico Italiano with altogether 3000 numbered units (distributed in an unknown number of sets), the first series with "volumes" grouped in 30 issues[4][5] and the second series in two parts, one with 10 issues.[6][7][5]
In 1871, Baglietto published Prospetto lichenologico della Toscana in which, combining everything that had been published by previous lichenologists and adding copious material gleaned from some private collections, he enumerated 411 species of lichens collected in Tuscany and the adjacent islands.[3] Giovanni Battista De Toni (1864–1925) bought Baglietto's lichen herbarium for the sum of £. 2000,[8] a collection that is now kept in the Botanical Institute of Modena. Other parts of his collection are kept at the Natural History Museum in Genoa.[5] Baglietto's collection of cryptogams is considered to be one of the most important of its kind in Europe.[3][8]
Baglietto died in Genoa, on 24 February 1916.[2]
Three lichen genera named after Baglietto are Bagliettoa A.Massal. (1853), Parabagliettoa Gueidan & Cl.Roux (2009), and Protobagliettoa Servít (1955).[9]
Selected publications
edit- Baglietto, F. (1857). "Enumerazione dei licheni di Liguria" [Enumeration of lichens of Liguria]. Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. 2 (in Italian). 17: 373–415.
- Baglietto, F. (1861). "Nuove specie di licheni" [New species of lichen]. Commentario della Società Crittogamologica Italiana. 1 (1): 17–24.
- Baglietto, F. (1865). "Materiali per la micologia Italiana" [Materials for Italian mycology]. Commentario della Società Crittogamologica Italiana. 2 (2): 261–265.
- Baglietto, F. (1870). "Nota sull'Endocarpon guepini Delise e descrizione della Guepinella myriocarpa n.sp" [Note on Endocarpon guepini Delise and description of Guepinella myriocarpa n.sp.]. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano. 2: 171–174.
- Baglietto, F. (1871). "Prospetto Lichenologico della Toscana" [Lichenological prospects of Tuscany]. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Italian). 3: 211–297.
- Baglietto, F. (1879). "Lichenes insulae Sardiniae". Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano (in Latin). 11 (1): 50–123.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Baglietto, Francesco (1826–1916)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ a b Grummann, Vitus (1974). Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch der Lichenologie (in German). Lehre: J. Cramer. pp. 512–513. ISBN 978-3-7682-0907-6. OCLC 1375447.
- ^ a b c de Toni, G.B. (1922). "Francesco Baglietto (1826–1916)". La Nuova Notarisia (in Italian). 33: 32–43.
- ^ "Erbario crittogamico Italiano, Series I". www.indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- ^ a b c Peccenini, Simonetta (2008). "Le collezioni botaniche dell'Università di Genova: storia del Museo e dell'Orto Botanico" (PDF). Museologia Scientifica Memorie (in Italian) (2): 156–160.
- ^ "Erbario crittogamico Italiano, Series II". www.indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- ^ "Erbario crittogamico Italiano, Series II". www.indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- ^ a b Tretiac, M.; Dallai, D. (1990). "L'erbario lichenologico dell'Università di Modena (Mod). I licheni dell'erbario Baglietto". Notiziario Società Lichenologica Italiana (in Italian). 3 (suppl.1): 51–56.
- ^ Hertel, Hannes (2012). Gattungseponyme bei Flechten und Lichenicolen Pilzen. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 107. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-443-58086-5.