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    Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 1553 – 6 February 1617) was a Venetian...
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  • with the remaining 7% of unassessable origin. The Italian botanist Prospero Alpini stayed in Egypt for several years in the 1580s. He introduced to Latin...
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  • from Crema, Lombardy Prospero Alpini (1553-1617), a Venetian physician and botanist known by the author abbreviation "Alpino" Alpini, an ancient tribe that...
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  • Benedict XIV (1675–1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Venetian physician and botanist Prospero Amatong (1931–2009), Philippine...
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    among the Romans; a dish of marsh mallow was one of their delicacies. Prospero Alpini stated in 1592 that a plant of the mallow kind was eaten by the Egyptians...
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  • Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed. Prospero Alpini publishes De Medicina Egyptiorum in Venice, including accounts of coffee...
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  • restaurant in Detroit, Michigan The Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers of the Italian Army Prospero Alpini, and Italian physician and botanist...
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    introduced to the mainland of Europe. In 1591 Venetian botanist-physician Prospero Alpini became the first to publish a description of the coffee plant in Europe...
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    first botanical description was in the De medicina Aegyptiorum by Prospero Alpini (1592), looking at fruits that he observed in Egypt from an unknown...
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  • Butler, Irish|Irish alchemist (at sea) (born c. 1534). February 6 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1553). February 11 – Giovanni...
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