Francesco Baglietto

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(1826-07-02)July 2, 1826
Voltri
DiedFebruary 24, 1916(1916-02-24) (aged 89)
Genoa
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
FieldsLichenology
Author abbrev. (botany)Bagl.[1]

Biography

Francesco 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. The exsiccates (sets of dried herbarium specimens) were published in a first series consisting of 1500 volumes grouped in 30 issues and in a second series of 10 issues.[4]

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,[5] 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.[4] Baglietto's collection of cryptogams is considered to be one of the most important of its kind in Europe.[3][5]

Baglietto died in Genoa on 24 February 1916.[2]

Selected publications
  • 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.

References
  1. "Baglietto, Francesco (1826–1916)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  2. Grummann, Vitus (1974). Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch der Lichenologie (in German). Lehre: J. Cramer. pp. 512–513. ISBN 978-3-7682-0907-6. OCLC 1375447.
  3. de Toni, G.B. (1922). "Francesco Baglietto (1826–1916)". La Nuova Notarisia (in Italian). 33: 32–43.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
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