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Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies. He is usually referred to, especially in older scientific literature in Latin, as Aldrovandus ...
Ulisse Aldrovandi. Naturalist and professor of logic, philosophy and natural philosophy (Bologna 1522 – 1605). Hungry for knowledge, Aldrovandi was the leading representative of the 16th-century fashion for encyclopaedic naturalism at the University of Bologna. Over the course of his long life, he built up a collection of objects and mineral ...
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May 11, 2018 · Aldrovandi, Ulisse. ( b. Bologna, Italy, 11 September 1522; d. Bologna, May 1605) natural sciences. Aldrovandi is a typical representative of those “universal” and multifaceted minds which seem to have been characteristic of the Renaissance. He was the son of a nobleman, Teseo Aldrovandi, a notary who served as secretary of the Senate of ...
Lifespan: 83. 2. Father. Occupation: Lawyer, Government Official. Teseo Aldrovandi, a notary (lawyer) and secretary to the Senate of Bologna. He died when Ulisse was only seven. It is clear that the family was poor while Ulisse was growing up, and remained so until the election of Pope Gregory XIII, from the family of Ulisse's mother, around 1570.
Oct 28, 2022 · Ulisse Aldrovandi was born into a noble family. His father, Teseo Aldrovandi, served the senate of Bologna as a secretary, while his mother, Veronica Marescalchi, was a relative of Pope Gregory XIII.
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Ulisse Aldrovandi has been acknowledged by many as the father of modern Natural History. He was born in Bologna in 1522 and obtained the first Chair for Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna in 1560. He founded the Botanic Garden and created a collection of natural specimens of great importance. This tour is designed to accompany you to ...
A critical biography of the early modern Italian naturalist. The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath, and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of colored drawings detailing them. Many of these drawings found their way into his illustrated publications, most of which were ...
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