Pietro Arduino Explained

Pietro Arduino (18 July 1728, in Caprino Veronese – 13 April 1805, in Padua) was an Italian botanist.

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

Selected works

• Book: Animadversionum botanicarum specimen. 1. Giovanni Battista Conzatti. Padua. 1759. la.
  • Book: Animadversionum botanicarum specimen. 2. Francesco Sansoni. Venice. 1764. la.
• 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