> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 389](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259893) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97655472) QID Q97655472 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Franzoni, Alberto (1816-1886), Swiss lawyer and amateur botanist, born 20 Aug 1816 in Locarno (Cantone Ticino), studied law in Zurich and Pisa where he received a doctorate in 1837, much involved in politics, studied the flora of Ticino, died 9 Aug 1886 in Locarno. **Abbreviated name**: *Franzoni* #### Herbarium and types According to P.A. Saccardo (1901), Franzoni's private herb. of ca. 5500 specimens still exists with his family at Locarno. #### Bibliography and biography AGH 6(1): 69; APN p. 208; Barnhart 2: 4; BL 2: 377, 583, 655; BM 2: 614; Bossert p. 132; CSP 15: 107; GR p. 517; GR cat. p. 63; Hegi 4(2): 1010; Kew 2: 332; Portr. 3: 447; Rehder 1: 437; Saccardo 1: 75-76, 2: 51, cron. xxii; Tucker 1: 261. #### Biofile - Bettelini, A., 1919. Boll. Soc. Ticinese Sci. Nat. 11-14: 7-10. - Jäggli, M., 1919. Boll. Soc. Ticinese Sci. Nat. 11-14: 11-18. ### Publications ##### n.35.408. piante fanerogame **Title** Le *piante fanerogame* della *Svizzera Insubrica*; enumerate secondo il metodo decandolliano per cura di Alberto Franzoni... Opera postuma ordinata e annotata del Dre A. Lenticchia... con note ed aggiunte di L. Favrat... Zurigo \[Zurich\] (Tipografia Zürcher & Furrer) \[1890\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Piante fanerog. Svizzera Insubrica*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1890 (Nat. Nov. Oct (1) 1890, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 1 Dec 1890, Bot. Centralbl. 23 Oct 1890, Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 31 Oct 1890, pref. p. iv dated 3 Jun 1888), cover (identif.), t.p., p. \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-256. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), G, HH, K, KNAW, NY(2). – Issued as Neue Denkschr. allg. Schweiz. Ges. gesammten Naturwiss. 30(Abth. II). 1890. *Note*: (1) Issued posthumously by Lenticchia, Attilo (1852-x). (2) This posthumous publication also includes a note by Favrat, Louis (1827-1893). (3) The K and one of the NY copies differ slightly from the present version; each has a cover-t.p. and the publisher is listed as "H. Georg a Baslea, Ginevra e Lione" as opposed to "H. Georg in Basel, Genève & Lyon".