Claim: Giacomo Damiani, whose many his specimens are in the La Specola Museum in Florence,  was an Italian zoologist and was instrumental in assembling a zoological collection called “la Collezione Elbana” at Villa San Martino.
Evidence: Many of his specimens are in the La Specola museum in Florence. Giacomo Damiani (August 1871, Portoferraio – 1944) was an Italian ichthyologist and ornithologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them". He was instrumental in assembling a zoological collection called "la collezione Elbana" at Villa San Martino (), now dispersed.