Francesco Cupani
{{Short description|Italian botanist (1657–1710)}}
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Francesco Cupani ( 21 January 1657, Mirto – 19 January 1710, Palermo )
was an Italian naturalist mainly interested in botany.
In 1692 he became the first Director of the botanic garden at Misilmeri. Here the plants were classified a system taxonomy of binomial nomenclature later made standard by Carl Linnaeus. This work put him in contact with many botanists, for instance Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Caspar Commelin, William Sherard, James Petiver, Johann Georg Volckamer, Felice Viali (1638–1722) and Giovanni Battista Trionfetti. He is credited with cultivating wild sweetpeas and introducing them to the world. A sweetpea variety is named for him.{{cite web |url=https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_765Z_lathyrus_odoratus_oldfashioned_sweet_peas_cupani|title=Lathyrus odoratus, Old-Fashioned Sweet Peas, 'Cupani' Seeds £2.25 from Chiltern Seeds - Chiltern Seeds Secure Online Seed Catalogue and Shop }}
Works
- Catalogus plantarum sicularum Noviter adinventarum Palermo, 1692.
- Syllabus plantarum Siciliae Nuper detectarum Palermo, 1694.
- Hortus Catholicus Napoli, 1696.
- Pamphyton siculum, a natural history (fauna as well as flora) of Sicily published posthumously in 1713 and the result of 25 years work.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite journal|title=Study of a pre-Linnaean herbarium attributed to Francesco Cupani (1657-1710)|first1=Santa|last1=Pulvirenti|first2=Maria Martina|last2=Indriolo|first3=Pietro|last3=Pavone|first4=Rosanna Maria Stefania|last4=Costa|journal=Candollea|issn=0373-2967|volume=70|issue=1|year=2015|pages=67–99|doi=10.15553/c2015v701a8}}
External links
- {{DBI |title=CUPANI, Francesco |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-cupani_(Dizionario-Biografico) |last=Colombero |first=Carlo |volume=31}}
- [http://www.dipbot.unict.it/Erbario/cupani/index.html Herbarium (Cupani Hortus Siccus)]
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20121007082145/http://www.scricciolo.com/Nuovo_Neornithes/Hortus_Catholicus.htm Alberto Massi]}}
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Category:People from the Metropolitan City of Messina
Category:17th-century Italian botanists