Flora italiana
Subtitle: ossia, Raccolta delle piante più belle che si coltivano nei giardini d'Italia
By: diretta e illustrata dal professore Gaetano Savi
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project
Publisher: Pressa Niccolò Capurro
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Pisa
Language: ita
Subjects: Botany
Other titles: Raccolta delle piante più belle che si coltivano nei giardini d'Italia
Notes: "Co' Caratteri Bodoniani."

"[I]llustrated work by the director of Pisa's Botanical Garden was conceived along the lines of the most important English contributions to botanical literature, in particular, The Botanist's Repository by Henry Andrews and The Botanical Magazine by William Curtis. The book presents a "collection" of plants selected "from the most beautiful specimens cultivated in the gardens of Italy" in the form of Antonio Serantoni's elegant illustrations."--Biblio.com website: https://biblio.com.au/book/flora-italiana-savi-gaetano/d/653980015 (viewed March20, 2019).

"The work was an early Italian attempt to rival the stipple-engraved plates of Redouté."--Sotheby's website: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/travel-atlases-maps-natural-history-l14401/lot.19.html (viewed March 20, 2019).

"Italian florilegium by the director of the Botanical Garden at Pisa, devoted to native and and exotic plants cultivated in Italy at the time. The use of stipple-engraving was an attempt to emulate the works of Redouté, and many of the drawings are bold and decorative."--Bonhams website: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24634/lot/149/ (viewed March 20, 2019).

"La Flora Italiana, ossia raccolta delle piante piu belle che si coltivano nei giardini d’Italia (1818), di Gaetano Savi (1769 – 1844), rappresenta una monumentale opera tanto sotto l’aspetto scientifico, botanico e orticolo, quanto sotto quello letterario e artistico. L’opera si inscrive a pieno titolo nell’ambito della letteratura scientifica divulgativa ottocentesca. Il raffinato apparato iconografico, analizzato in appendice, illustrato da Antonio Serantoni, dimostra l’importanza dell’arte botanica sia in termini estetici che funzionali, associando un decorativismo compositivo che costituisce una manifestazione ulteriore della tensione tra vecchio e nuovo che permea la cultura botanica toscana e italiana del periodo. Di primario interesse le tavole del Serantoni, realizzate con la tecnica dello stipple engraving."--ARPI, Archivio della Ricerca, Università di Pisa website: https://arpi.unipi.it/handle/11568/832621#.XJKvBdtKipo (viewed March 20, 2019).

Index of plants contained in volume at end of each volume.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition) , 8068

Dunthorne, 271

Great Flower Books, p. 75

Nissen, BBI 1732

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Lib. copy tomo 1 has guard sheets plates 2-40 (no guard sheet plate 1); tomo 2 has guard sheets plates 42-80 (no guard sheet plate 74, plate 79); tomo 3 has guard sheets plates 81-120 (no guard sheet plate 104).

Lib. copy tomo 1: plate 15 has at plate bottom Sonchus torulosus, but plate 15 description reads Sonchus Gibbosus; plate 16 has at plate bottom Erica carnea but plate 16 description reads Erica Herbacea; plate 24 has at plate bottom Lagenstroemia indica but plate 24 description reads Lagerstroemia indica; plate 25 has at plate bottom Spigleia marilandica but plate 25 description reads Spigleia marylandica; plate 27 has at plate bottom  Rosa bipinnata flore pleno but plate 27 description has Rosa Centifolia; plate 28 has at plate bottom Rubus fruticosis flore pleno, albo et rubro but plate 27 description reads Robus fruticosis fl. pleno; pate 34 has at plate bottom Rosa bullata but plate 34 description reads Rosa Centifolia bullata; plate 40 has at plate bottom Xeranthemum fulgidum but plate 40 description reads Elichrysum Fulgidum.

Lib. copy tomo 2: plate 55 has at plate bottom Astroemeria Pelegrina but plate 55 description reads Alstroemeria Pelegrina; plate 56 has at plate bottom  Trapaeolum  peregrinum but plate 56 description reads Tropaeolum peregrinum;  plate 60 has at plate bottom Linum trigynum but plate 60 description has Lynum trigynum; plate 70 has at plate bottom Aretotis aspera flore aureo but description reads Arctotis aspera.; plate 77 has at plate bottom Passiflora Princeps but description reads Passiflora Alata.

Lib. copy tomo 2: plate 53 F. 2. lists 3 items but plate 53 F. 2.description reads only Chrysanthemum indicum album ; plate 53 e 54 lists 3 items but plate 53 e 54 description reads only Chrysanthemum indicum flavum; plate 63 lists 3 items but plate 63 description reads  onlyTulips silvestris

Lib. copy tomo 3: plate 95 has at plate bottom Salvia Splendes but plate 95 description reads Salvia Splendens; plate 96 has at plate bottom Camellia coronata but plate 96 description reads Camellia Japonica Pena Coronata; plate 107 has at plate bottom Spiraca tomentosa but plate 107 description reads Spiraea tomentosa

Lib. copy tomo 1 plate 29 has number "8" at top left on plate.