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### 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.