> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 504](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120635) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1653-1) LSID 1653-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2524905) QID Q2524905 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Cirillo (Cyrillus), Domenico Maria Leone (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Cirillo, Domenico Maria Leone (1739-1799), Italian statesman and botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Cirillo* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cirillo*\] #### Herbarium and types Collections destroyed when he was murdered at Naples on 8 Oct 1799. If any specimens were preserved at all they are perhaps at [[Collection NAP|NAP]]. *Ref*.: Saccardo 2: 32. - De Toni, Rev. Storia Sci. med. nat. 16(7-8). Jul-Aug 1925, 3 p. (carteggio inedito). #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 163; Barnhart 1: 349; BM 1: 350; Bossert p. 75; Dawson p. 319; Jackson p. 6, 319; Kanitz no. 60; Kew 1: 559-560; NI 357-358; PR 1717-1724; Saccardo 1: 51, 2: 32. - Carusi, Vita di Domenico Cirillo, editione quarta con l'aggiunta dei cenni biografici di Pasquale Carusie e d'una prolusione zoologica. Salerno 1868, 52 p. *Copy*: NY. – Reprinted from II Paese 4(26), Napoli 1862. - Ayala, M. d', Arch. stor. ital. ser. 3. 11(2): 107-145. 1870, 12(1): 106-125. 1870. - Cesati, Mem. Mat. Fis. Soc. ital. Sci. ser. 3: 3. lxix-lxxii, cxviii. 1879. - Balsamo et al., Bull. Orto bot. Napoli 3: 45-46. 1913 (portr.). - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 94-95. 1966. #### Note Cirillo latinized his name Cyrillus; the spelling Cyrillo must be avoided. – Cirillo was (see PR) president of the legislative Assembly at Naples and was "hingerichtet vom Bourbonischen Gesindel in Neapel." #### Eponymy *Cyrilla* \[sic\] Garden ex Linnaeus (1767); *Cyrillopsis* \[sic\] Kuhlmann (1925); *Cyrilloxylon* \[sic\] van den Burgh (1964). #### Handwriting Candollea 29: 223-224. 1974. ### Publications ##### n.1132. De essentialibus nonnullarum plantarum characteribus commentarius **Title** *De essentialibus nonnullarum plantarum characteribus commentarius*. Napoli 1784. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Essent. pl. char. comment.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1784, p. \[i\]-lxxv, \[1, err.\], *pl.1-4. Copy*: USDA. *Ref*.: BM 1: 350. ##### n.1133. Plantarum rariorum regni neapolitani **Title** *Plantarum rariorum regni neapolitani*. Fasciculus primus \[secundus\] cum tabulis aenis. Napoli 1788-1792, 2 fasc. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *pl. rar. neapol.* **Notes** 1: Jan-Jun 1788, p. i-xxxix, *pl. 1-12. Copies*: MICH, NY. 2: 1792, p. i-xxxv, *pl. 1-12. Copy*: NY. For the text of fasc. 2 see also Usteri, Ann. Bot. 13: 44-65. The plates are hand-coloured copper engr. by the artist. *Ref*.: BM 1: 350; GF p. 54; Jackson p. 319; Kew 1: 560; NI 358; PR 1720; IDC 405.