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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Prospero Alpini, Giacomo Bresadola, Luigi Piacenza, Andrea Cesalpino, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Bartolomeo Maranta, Leon Croizat, Luigi Fenaroli, Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Giovanni Domenico Nardo, Paolo Boccone, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Giovanni Baptista Ferrari, Odoardo Beccari, Carlo Allioni, Filippo Parlatore, Marcello Catalano, Pier Andrea Saccardo, Saverio Manetti, Emilio Chiovenda, Federico Delpino, Giorgio Jan, Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Antonio Musa Brassavola, Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli, Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli, Michele Tenore, Pietro Rossi, Vitaliano Donati, Giovanni Zantedeschi, Carlo Morici, Luca Ghini, Werner Greuter, Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi, Bernardino da Ucria, Michelangelo Tilli, Alessandro Trotter, Giuseppe Gibelli, Domenico Vandelli, Pietro Castelli, Giovanni Guiseppe Bianconi, Vincenzo de Cesati, Giovanni Arcangeli, Giovanni Passerini, Luigi Aloysius Colla, Vincenzo Tineo, Francesco Cupani, Fabrizio Cortesi, Giulio Camus, Gustavo Venturi, Lorenzo Berlese, Biagio Bartalini, Agostino Todaro, Pietro Arduino, Antonio Bertoloni, Vincenzo Petagna, Stefano delle Chiaje, Sandro Pignatti, Giulio Pontedera. Excerpt: Giacomo Bresadola (Mezzana, Trento; often given as Giacopo) 14 February 1847 - Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist. Fungi he named include the deadly Lepiota helveola and Inocybe patouillardii, though the latter is now known as Inocybe erubescens as this latter description predated Bresadola's by a year. He was a founding member of the Societe mycologique de France (Mycology Society of France). Bresadola was born in 1847 into a farming family in Trent, then an Austrian possession. From a very early age, he showed an interest in botany. After attending elementary school at Mezzana, he was sent by his father to Cloz in the Val di Non at the age of...
