About Giovanni Antonio Battarra
Lived 1714 – 1789 (aged 75). Giovanni Antonio Battarra was an Italian botanist, mycologist, scientific illustrator and catholic priest.
Giovanni Antonio Battarra (Coriano, 9 June 1714 – Rimini, 8 November 1789) was an Italian priest, naturalist, and mycologist. In 1755, he published Fungorum Agri Ariminensis Historia, consisting of 80 pages and illustrated with 40 copper plates drawn and engraved by himself, in which he described 248 species of fungi.
He visited and consulted with the Abbot Bruno Tozzi, a celebrated amateur botanist in Florence.
Eponymous species Amanitopsis battarrae Boud., 1902 (now Amanita battarrae) Battarrea Pers. (1801) Hypocrea subgen. Battarrina Sacc., 1883 Phoma battarreae Pleurotus battarrae Quél., 1879 Agaricus battarrae Fr., 1821 (now Psathyrella battarrae)
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Italian mycologist (1714-1789)
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Giovanni Antonio Battarra was born on 9 June 1714 in Coriano.
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Giovanni Antonio Battarra died on 8 November 1789 in Rimini.
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Giovanni Antonio Battarra was a botanist, mycologist, scientific illustrator and catholic priest.
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Giovanni Antonio Battarra was Italian.
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