> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 160](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259664) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q775194) QID Q775194 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ferrari \[Ferrarius\], Giovanni Battista (S.J.) (1583-1655), Italian scholar, botanist and priest, born in Siena (then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany), baptized 2 Mai 1583, entered the Jesuit Order in Rome 1602, elected chair of Hebrew and rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Rome ca. 1623 and held the post for 28 years, also cultivated a close association with the collector and scholar Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) who facilitated his 1623 appointment as gardener and chief horticultural advisor to the Barberini family to which Pope Urban VIII (1568-1664) belonged, died 1 Feb 1655 in Siena. **Abbreviated name**: *Ferr.* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – Orig. drawings for his book *Hesperides* (see below) are in the Paper Museum (Museo Cartaceo) of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Windsor Castle (Berks.), England; other mss. materials in Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome; Archivio Barberini, Vatican; and Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 523; Barnhart 1: 537; Blunt ed. 2: 154, 308; BM 2: 567; DBI 46: 595-598; GFB ed. 2: 484 (as "Ferrarius"); Herder p. 450 (index); HU 1: 240, 259-260; Kew p. 198; Langman p. 280; Moebius p. 405; NI 2: 59; NI suppl. p. 33; Plesch p. 222; PR ed. 2: 2877-2878; Rehder 5(index): 276; Saccardo 1: 72, cron. p. xxi; Sotheby 1: 214-215; Tucker 1: 246. #### Biofile - Anon., Dictionary cat. library Mass. Horticultural Soc., Boston (G.K. Hall) 1: 606. 1962; Early botanical books: an exhibit celebrating the centennial of the Arnold Arboretum 1872-1972: 31. \[1972\]; A magnificent collection of botanical books: being the finest colour-plate books from the celebrated library formed by Robert de Belder: 123-124. 1987. - Brunet, J.-Ch., 1861 \[1966 reprint\]. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 2: 1231. (as "Ferrarii, Jo.-Bapt.") - Burdet, H.M., 1985. Ouvrages botaniques anciens, Editions des Conservatoires et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève: 181-185. - Freedberg, D., 1999. Nat. Hist. 108(8): 58-63. \[re. The Paper Museum\] - Freedberg, D., 2002. The eye of the lynx: Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history, Chicago (Univ. of Chicago Press): 507. (index) - Freedberg, D. & E. Baldini, 1997. Paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Ser. B, Natural history–Pt. 1: 337. (index) - Graesse, J.G.T., 1859-1869 \[1950 reprint\]. Trésor de livres rare et précieux 2: 571. (as "Joh. Bapt.") - Haller, A. von, 1771. Bibliotheca botanica 1: 450. - Heller, J.L., 1959. *In*, Carl Linnaeus, Species Plantarum: a facsimile of the first edition 1753, vol. 2 (Appendix): 23. - Jarvis, C., 2007. Order out of chaos: Linnaean plant names and their types: 130. - Lack, H.W., 2001. Ein Garten Eden: Meisterwerke der botanischen Illustration, Köln (Taschen): 92-93. - Raphael, S., 1990. An Oak Spring Pomona, Upperville, Virginia (Oak Spring Garden Library): 268. (index) - Snyder, J., 1976. Art Bull. 58: 51l-515. \[re. *Pomum adami*\] - Sommervogel, C. et al., 1892. Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, nouvelle ed., 3: 678, no. 9. (n.v.) - Tassi, Fl., 1905. Bull. Lab. Orto Bot. Reale Univ. Siena 7: 14. (b. "1584") - Tongiorgi Tomasi, L., 1997. An Oak Spring flora, Upperville, Virginia (Oak Spring Garden Library): 421. (index) #### Eponymy *Ferraria* Burm. ex Mill. (1759). ### Publications ##### n.34.397. De florum cultura **Title** Io. Bapt. Ferrarii Senensis e Societate Iesu *De florum cultura*: libri IV... Romæ (Excudebat Stephanus Paulinus) 1633. Qu. **Notes** *Engravers*: Bloemaert, Cornelis (1603-1684?), Dutch print-maker; Greuter, Johann Friedrich (ca. 1590-1662), engraver. *Publ*.: 1633 (permission leaf dated Sep 1632 in BM copy), t.p., \[i-x\], \[1\]-522, \[i-xv, Index rerum\], \[xvi, blank\], *45 pl*. (uncol. copper engr., unnumb. or with page nrs.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH–Dumbarton Oaks (*46 pl.*), K (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY, NYPL (n.v.), USDA (n.v.). *Note*: (1) Added engraved t.p. with title "*Flora sive Florum cultura*". (2) Cited as "Ferr. cult." or "Ferr. flor" in Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1753. (3) Work includes the first botanical illus. made with the aid of a microscope (*viz*. seeds of *Hibiscus mutabilis* on p. 499)! (4) Some of the plates in this edition, redrawn and reversed, later appear in J.T. de Bry, *Florilegium *... Francofurti \[i.e. Frankfurt am Main\] (Apud M. Merianum) 1641. (5) Sotheby (1: 214) notes another (first?) edition with a different setting of type. (6) In Nov 2006, copies of this edition were offered for sale at US$6500 and $4000, respectively. *Amsterdam ed*.: 1646, Ioh: Baptistæ Ferrarii Senensis, S.I., Flora seu de Florum cultura: Lib. IV. Editio Nova. Accurante Bernh: Rottendorffio... Amstelodami (Apud Joannem Janssonium), p. \[i-xliv\], \[1\]-522, \[i-xii, Index rerum\], *45 pl*. (copper engr., included as pages). *Copies*: MO (n.v.), NY, NYPL (n.v.). *Editor*: Rottendorff, Bernhard (1594-1671). *Note*: This edition is unchanged except for the front matter and index. (2) NY copy lacking engraved t.p. with title "*Flora sive Florum cultura*" and plate facing p. 381. *Reprint* \[of Amsterdam ed.\]: 1664,... Amstelodami (Apud Joannem Janssonium), frontisp., p. \[i-xliv\], \[1\]-522, \[i-xii, Index rerum\], *45 pl*. (copper engr., included as pages). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), NY. *Note*: Added plate as frontisp. dedicated to "Francisus Guilhelmus D.G. Episocpus Osnaburg". *Italian transl*.: 1638 (p. \[iv\] signed 8 Sep 1638), *Flora, ouero, Cultura di fiori*, de P. Gio. Battista Ferrari Sanese... Distinta in Quattro libri e trasportata dalla lingua latina nell'italiana da Lodouico Aureli Perugino... In Roma (Per Pier.' Ant. Facciotti), p. \[i-xvi\], \[1\]-520, \[i-xxvi, "Indice delle cose piu notabili"\], 46 pl. (uncol. copper engr., unnumb. or with page nrs.). Qu. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH, K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), USDA (n.v.). *Microfiche*: New Canaan, Conn. (Readex Microprint), \[1988\], 10 microfiches, (Landmarks II. Monographs). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Transl*.: Perugino, Lodouico Aureli. *Note*: It may be that there are two editions of this transl., both published in 1638, but with the type reset and changes made in the latter one (*fide* Kew library cat.). *Reprint* \[of 1638 Italian transl.\]: 1975,... Roma (Vivarelli). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Facsimile* \[of 1638 Italian transl.\]: Oct 2001 (printer's mark), Flora overo cultura di fiori ... with new introd. by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, and texts by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Alberta Campitelli & Margherita Zalum Cardon,... \[Firenze\] (Leo S. Olschki), p. \[i\]-lv, \[facsimile\], \[i, indice\], \[i, printer's mark\], \[i, advert.\]. *Copies*: K, HH-Dumbarton Oaks, MO (n.v.). – In series, Giardini e paesaggio 2. *Ref*.: Lack, W., Taxon 51(3): 597. Aug 2002 (brief rev.). ##### n.34.398. Hesperides **Title** *Hesperides*, sive De malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quatuor Io: Baptistae Ferrarii... Romæ (sumptibus Hermanni Scheus) 1646. Fol. **Notes** *Engravers*: Bloemaert, Cornelis (1603-1684?), Dutch print-maker; Greuter, Johann Fridrich (1590-1662), engraver. *Publ*.: 1646, frontisp., t.p.\[=p. i\], p.\[i-x\],\[1\]-480,\[i-xiv, index\],\[xv, "Romae... Ex Typographia Vitalis Mafcardi..."\], *100*\[*101?*\]*pl*. (copper engr., included as pages). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY(2) (n.v.), US (imperfect, p. 97-98 (i.e. leaf N1) lacking), USDA (n.v.). *Microfilm*: (a) Woodbridge, Conn. (Research Publications),\[1981\], 1 reel (35 mm), (Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 921.0 suppl.). *Copy*: (n.v.). (b) Cambridge, Mass. (General Microfilm),\[19--\], 1 reel (35 mm), (Italian books 1601-1700). *Copy*: (n.v.). (c) St. Louis (Pius XII Memorial Library, Saint Louis Univ.),\[n.d.\], 1 reel (35 mm), (Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books; list 81, reel 11, no. 3). *Copy*: (n.v.). *Electronic version*: (a)\[St. Louis\](Missouri Botanical Garden), 2002. (b) Farmington Hills, Michigan (Thomson Gale), 2005. (c)\[St. Louis (Missouri Botanical Garden)\]: Botanicus. *Note*: (1) *Hesperides* is in four parts; the first part elaborates archaeological, numismatic, mythological and etymological aspects of citrus lore; the next three parts are devoted to citrons, lemons and oranges respectively. (2) US copy has *97 pl*. and frontisp.; plates on p. 229-230 are back to back instead of verso being blank. (3) Cited as "Ferr. hesp." in Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1753. (4) "Splendidum opus..." (*fide* Haller, Bibl. bot. 1: 540. 1771). \[*English transl*.\]: Jun 1936, Hawkinson, Lily Thompson, An *introduction* to and *notes* on the *translation* of *one-half* of *Hesperides*, or, The culture and use of the golden apples... \[i.e. transl. of books 1 and 4\], M.A. Thesis,\[Claremont, Calif.\](Claremont Colleges), xxxviii, 167 lvs. *Copy*: (n.v.).