• Thumbnail for Prospero Alpini
    Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 1553 – 6 February 1617) was a Venetian...
    12 KB (1,296 words) - 19:04, 23 March 2024
  • 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...
    31 KB (2,978 words) - 18:41, 12 June 2024
  • from Crema, Lombardy Prospero Alpini (1553-1617), a Venetian physician and botanist known by the author abbreviation "Alpino" Alpini, an ancient tribe that...
    798 bytes (128 words) - 13:22, 27 March 2020
  • Benedict XIV (1675–1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Venetian physician and botanist Prospero Amatong (1931–2009), Philippine...
    4 KB (486 words) - 13:47, 21 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Althaea officinalis
    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...
    11 KB (1,227 words) - 19:43, 23 April 2024
  • restaurant in Detroit, Michigan The Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers of the Italian Army Prospero Alpini, and Italian physician and botanist...
    450 bytes (84 words) - 14:09, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of coffee
    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...
    86 KB (10,797 words) - 07:24, 15 July 2024
  • Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed. Prospero Alpini publishes De Medicina Egyptiorum in Venice, including accounts of coffee...
    2 KB (180 words) - 16:34, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adansonia
    first botanical description was in the De medicina Aegyptiorum by Prospero Alpini (1592), looking at fruits that he observed in Egypt from an unknown...
    35 KB (3,643 words) - 06:21, 8 July 2024
  • botanischen Pflanzennamen, by Helmut Genaust, year 1996. The Latin botanist Prospero Alpini (died 1617) visited Egypt in the 1580s. He called the plant "Abelmosch"...
    70 KB (8,151 words) - 16:56, 20 March 2024