> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 670](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120801) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2272-1) LSID 2272-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2265720) QID Q2265720 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Donati, Vitaliano (1713-1762), Italian biologist, apothecary at Venetia. **Abbreviated name**: *Donati* \[standard form in IPNI: *Donati*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TO|TO]]; some mentioned for [[Collection LINN|LINN]] (Laségue). *Ref*.: IH 2: 165; Lasègue 358-359. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 464; BM 1: 472; Bossert p. 105; DTS 1: 59; Kanitz no. 44; NI p. 50; PR 2370; Quenstedt p. 118; Saccardo 1: 67, 2: 42, Cronologia p. xxxvii-xxxix. - Gennari, Elogio di V.D., Padova 1839. - Camerano-Lessona, Lettere inediti di V. Donati, Ancona 1883. - Barocelli, Atti Accad. Sci. Torino 47: 411-425. 1911/12 (trip to Orient 1759/62). - Fries, Bref och Skr. Linné ser. I. 2: 264. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 182. 1936. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males, ser. I. 1: 141-142. 1950 (secondary refs.) #### Eponymy *Donatia* J. R. Forster & J. G. A. Forster (1776, *nom. cons.*); *Vitaliana* Sesler (1758). ### Publications ##### n.1500. Della storia naturale marina dell' Adriatico **Title** *Della storia naturale marina dell' Adriatico*. Saggio del signor dottore Vitaliano Donati giuntavi una lettera del signor dottore Lionardo Sesler intorno ad un nuovo genere di piante terrestri Venezia (Francesco Storti) 1750. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Stor. nat. Adriat.* **Notes** *Orig*.: 1750 (p. vii: 4 Mar 1750), pre-linnaean, see, however, the French version of 1758. -p. \[i\*-viii\*\], i-lxvii, lettera \[lxix\]-lxxxi, plate *Vitaliana* s.n., *pl. 1-9* uncol. copper engr. *Copies*: L, MO, NY, PCS, UC. – The UC copy is a large paper copy but otherwise identical with the regular edition. *German*: " *Vitaliano Donati Auszug seiner Natur-Geschichte des adriatischen Meers* den Boden des Meers zu untersuchen, nebst Instrumenten in solcher Tiefe zu fischen; von Classen der Meerpflanzen, der Polyporen, der Thierpflanzen und Pflanzenthiere, oder Uebergang der Natur vom Pflanzenreiche zum Thierreiche. Nebst Leonhard Seslers Anhange einer besonderen Bergpflanze, Vitaliana. Aus dem Italiänischen übersetzt und mit nöthigen Kupfern versehen." Halle (Christoph Peter Franckens) 1753. Qu. p. \[1\]-71, \[72, index\], pl. *i-ii. Copies*: NY, PCS. – This 1753 publication must also be considered pre-linnaean in the absence of indication that it appeared after 1 May 1753. (*Ausz. Natur-Gesch. adriat. Meer.*) *French*: "*Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la mer adriatique* par le docteur Vitaliano Donati, avec une lettre du docteur Leonard Sesler, sur une nouvelle espèce de plante terrestre, traduit de l'italien." 's-Gravenhage (La Haye) (Pierre de Hondt) 1758. Qu. (*Essai hist. nat. mer adriat.*) *Publ*.: Jan-Mar 1758, p. \[i\*-ii\*\], \[i\]-iii, \[iv, avis relieur\], \[1\]-73, *pl. 1-11. Copies*: MO, NY, PCS. – This edition counts for purposes of nomenclature. *Ref*.: BM 1: 472; Cobres 1: 427; PR 2370. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. no. 1137. - Dandy, Regn. veg. 51: 9. 1967.