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### 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).