> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 478](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120609) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1483-1) LSID 1483-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346523) QID Q346523 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Cesalpino, Andrea (lat. Caesalpinus) (1519-1603), Italian botanist, "the first orthodox systematist" (L.), professor of medicine and botany at Pisa 1555, Roma 1592. **Abbreviated name**: *Cesalpino* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cesalpino*\] #### Herbarium and types At [[Collection FI|FI]], dated 1563. Cesalpino is known to have made two herbaria, one (now lost) for Come I, grand-duke of Tuscany, and one for Alfonso Tornabuoni, bishop of Florence, now at [[Collection FI|FI]], dated 1563. It consists of 260 sheets with 768 plants mounted on the sheets, each plant provided with a Greek, Latin and Italian name in Cesalpino's own handwriting. The plants are in systematic order. *Ref*.: GR p. 529. - Caruel, Illustratio in hortum siccum Andreae Caesalpini, Florence 1858, xii, 128 p. - Parlatore, Coll. bot. Florence 55-57. 1874. - Candolle, Phytographie 402. 1880. - Saint-Lager, Histoire herbiers 67-68. 1885. - Camus, Malpighia 9: 303-304. 1895. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 395, 6(2): 187; Barnhart 1: 327; BM 1: 296; Bossert p. 69; GR p. 529.; HU 1: 472 \[index\]; Jackson p. xxx, 27; Kew 1: 503; Langman p. 176; Moebius p. 488 \[index\]; PR 1640-1641; Saccardo 1: 49, 2: 30; Smit p. 895, 1043. - Sprengel, Gesch. Bot. 1: 361-364. 1817. - Jourdan, Dict. Sci. méd., Bibl. méd. 3: 206-211. 1821. - Bertoloni, Opusc. scientifici 3: 270. - Caruel, Nuovo Giorn. bot. Ital. 4: 23-48. 1872. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 161. 1903, 3(3): 177. 1905. - Oliver, Makers Brit. bot. 11-13, 21, 26. 1913. - Viviani, U., Vita e opere di Andrea C, Arezzo 1922. - Capparoni, P., Profili bibliografici dei medici e naturalisti celebri italiani, Roma 1925, p. 25-29 (portr.) - Dorolle, M., Questions péripatéticiennes, Paris 1929 (n.v.) - Castiglioni, Encicl. ital. 9: 866. 1931 (portr.) - Lütjeharms, Gesch. Mykol. xviii. Jahrh. 254 \[index\]. 1936. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 369. 1971. #### Eponymy *Caesalpinia* Linnaeus (1753); *Caesalpiniodes* O. Kuntze (1891). ### Publications ##### n.1073. De plantis libri XVI **Title** *De plantis libri XVI*... Ad serenissimum Franciscum Medicem, Magnum Aetruriae Ducem. Florence (Apud Georgium Marescottum) 1583. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. libri XVI*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1583, p. \[i-xl\], 1-621, \[ind., err. col. 1-10\], dated 27 Sep 1583 in colophon. *Copies*: MO, NY. *Appendix* ad libros de plantis, Roma 1603, Qu., p. 1-19 (n.v., see PR 1641 for a description of a copy), reprinted by Boccone, Museo di piante rare 125-132. *Ref*.: BM 1: 296; Langman p. 176; LS 4573; PR 1640; SA 1: 150, 2: 547. - Bremekamp, A re-examination of Cesalpino's classification, Acta Bot. neerl. 1 (4): 580-593. 1953 (commentary).