> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 153](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264880) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3745100) QID Q3745100 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Arena, Filippo (1708-1789), Italian (Sicily) jesuit, mathematician and botanist, teacher of mathematics at various Jesuit Colleges: at Viterbo, and as professor of mathematics at the Jesuit College in Malta, later at the Collegio imperial di Palermo, from 1773 in retirement in Rome. **Abbreviated name**: *Arena* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 72 (b. 1 Mai 1708, Piazza Americana, Sicily); BM 1: 58; Encicl. Ital. 4: 150; NI 48, Nachtr. 17; Plesch 16; PR 223, ed. 1: 283; Rehder 3: 126; Saccardo 1: 17, 2: 12-13. #### Biofile - Bunyard, E.A., J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 1923: 183-184. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 254. 1877. - Solms-Laubach, M. Graf zu, Bot. Zeit. 55(2): 113-117. 16 Apr 1893 (detailed account of *La* *natura*). - Sommervogel, C., Bibl. Comp. Jésus 1: 527. 1890 (brief biogr.; b. 1 Mai 1708, Piazza, Sicily; jesuit from 14 Nov 1723). ### Publications ##### n.19.407. La natura, e coltura de' fiori **Title** *La natura, e coltura de' fiori* fisicamenta esposta in due trattati con nuove raggioni, osservazioni, e sperienze. A vantaggio de' fioristi de' fisici, de' botanici ed agricoltori... Palermo (Appresso Angelo Felicella) 1767-1768. Text qu., *pl*. obliq. fol., 3 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Natura coltura fiori*. **Notes** *1*: 1767 (preface 17 Apr 1767), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-163 (part 1), 164-337 (part 2), 338-440 (part 3). *2*: 1768, p. \[i\]-viii, 1-416, 1-167, \[1-8\], *3*: (*plates*): 1767, p. \[1\], *pl. 1-65* (copper engr. by P. Mario Camareri). *Copy*: G.