What key details about prospero alpini can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: prospero alpini -lrb- also known as prosper alpinus , prospero alpinio and prosper alpin -rrb- -lrb- 23 november 1553 -- 6 february 1617 -rrb- , was an italian physician and botanist from the republic of venice . born at marostica , a town near vicenza , in his youth he served for a time in the milanese army , but in 1574 he went to study medicine at padua . after taking his doctor 's degree in 1578 , he settled as a physician in campo san pietro , a small town in the paduan territory . but his tastes were botanical , and to extend his knowledge of exotic plants he travelled to egypt in 1580 as physician to george emo or hemi , the venetian consul in cairo . in egypt he spent three years , and from a practice in the management of date palms , which he observed in that country , he seems to have deduced the doctrine of the sexual difference of plants , which was adopted as the foundation of the linnaean taxonomy system . he says that '' the female date-trees or palms do not bear fruit unless the branches of the male and female plants are mixed together ; or , as is generally done , unless the dust found in the male sheath or male flowers is sprinkled over the female flowers '' . on his return , he resided for some time at genoa as physician to andrea doria , and in 1593 he was appointed professor of botany at padua , where he died on 6 february 1617 . he was succeeded in the botanical chair by his son alpino alpini -lrb- d. 1637 -rrb- . his best-known work is '' de plantis aegypti liber '' -lrb- venice , 1592 -rrb- . this work introduced a number of plant species previously unknown to european botanists . the new species included '' abrus , abelmoschus , lablab , '' and '' melochia , '' each of which are native to tropical areas and were cultivated with artificial irrigation in egypt at the time . another was '' sesban '' meaning '' sesbania sesban '' . another was the baobab tree -lrb- which he spelled '' bahobab '' -rrb- . early adopters of alpini 's new botanical names included the botanists carolus clusius...
- death place is padua , italy- residence is venetian republic- death date is 3 february 1617- field is botany , medicine- birth date is 23 november 1553- name is prospero alpini- nationality is italian- image is alpino-portrait-1616 . png- birth place is marostica , italy- alma mater is padua university