> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 108](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258586) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2996-1) LSID 2996-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762092) QID Q762092 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gallesio, Giorgio \[Georges\] (Conte) (1772-1839), Italian geneticist, pomologist, magistrate, deputy and diplomat, born 23 Mai 1772 in Finalborgo (now Finale Ligure) on the Gulf of Genoa (then Republic of Genoa), law degree 1793 Univ. of Pavia, "Consiglio Generale", Dept. of Montenotte 1808, elected deputy from Dept. of Montenotte 1809, died 29 Nov 1839 in Florence. **Abbreviated name**: *Gallesio* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gallesio*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – Archivio Gallesio-Piuma, Genoa; additional (extensive) mss. materials at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.). #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 216; Backer p. 228; Blunt p. 222, ed. 2: 260; BM 2: 636; Bossert p. 138; CSP 2: 761; DBI 51: 565-568; DU p. 202; GFB ed. 2: 95; Herder p. 451 (index); Jackson p. 128; Kew 2: 367; Langman p. 299; MW p. 134; NI 2: 65; NI suppl. p. 34; Portr. 3: 462; Pritzel ed. 2: 3179; Rehder 5(index): 307; Saccardo 1: 77; TL-2/4: 1171 (index); Tucker 1: 268. #### Biofile - Anon., A catalog of the Edward L. Greene collection: 131. 1986. - Baldini, E. & A. Tosi, 1994. Scienza e arte nella "Pomona Italiana" di Giorgio Gallesio, Firenze (Accademia dei Georgofili): \[1\]-130. (portrs.) - Braschi, B., 1931. Ann. Bot. (Rome) 19: 76-98. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., 1980. Nat. hist. manuscript resources British Isles: 402. (index) - Brunet, J.-Ch., 1861 \[1966 reprint\]. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres 2: 1466. - Dunthorne, G., 1970. Flower & fruit prints: 54-55, 202. - Ferraro, C., 1996. Giorgio Gallesio \[1772-1839\] e la missione botanica de Giovanni Casaretto (1838-1839): scritti e documenti inediti, Genova (De Ferrari Editore): 1-69. (portr.) (n.v.) - Ferraro, C., 1996. Giorgio Gallesio (1772-1839): vita, opere, scritti e documenti inediti, Firenze (Accademia dei Georgofili): 142 p. (portr.) (n.v.) - Ferraro, C., 2001. La Pomona Italiana di Giorgio Gallesio, Piemonte Parchi Supp 1, di Piemonte Parchi No 4, anno XVI: 22-25. (n.v.) - Freedberg, D. & E. Baldini, 1997. Paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, Ser. B, Natural history – Pt. 1: 338. (index) - Gallesio, G., 1985. Dai giornali d'agricoltura e di viaggi... Genova (Sagep): 271 p. (n.v.) - Gallesio, G., 1995. I giornali dei viaggi... Firenze (Accademia dei Georgofili): 478 p. \[transcription, notes and comments by E. Baldini\] (n.v.) - Gallesio, G., 2003. Il carteggio Gallesio-Littardi, 1811-1839, Prasco (Alessandria) (Centro per la promozione degli studi su Giorgio Gallesio): 111 p. (corr.) (n.v.) - Lamberti, M.C., 1981. Quaderni Storici Ancona 16(48): 1035-1071. (n.v.) - Raphael, S., 1990. An Oak Spring Pomona: 268-269. (index) - Viacava, L., 2001. Le palme negli scritti di Giorgio Gallesio. Atti dell'Accademia dei Georgofili, ser. 7, 48(177), Suppl.: vi, 180 p. (portr.) (n.v.) #### Eponymy *Gallesia* Casaretto (1843); *Gallesioa* M. Roem. (1846). ### Publications ##### n.35.999. Traité **Title** *Traité* du *Citrus*... Paris (Chez Louis Fantin, Libraire... de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné) 1811. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1811, p. \[i\]-xviii, \[1\]-363, 1 schema. *Copies*: G, HH-Dumbarton Oaks, HU (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), NY (n.v.), NYPL (n.v.), WU. *Microfilm*: London (British Library), 1987, 1 reel (197 fr.), 35 mm. *Copy*: (n.v.). *Reissue* \[1\]: 1829 (p. xxviii signed 2 Apr 1829),... Paris (Chez Fantin, Libraire), p. \[v\]-xxviii, \[1\]-363, 2 schemata (fold.). Oct. *Copies*: BM, HH, LC (n.v.). *Note*: (1) Pages \[xix\]-xxviii are entitled "Extrait d'une letter de M. O. Leclerc-Thouin, A M.C\*\*\*\*". (2) Leclerc-Thouin, Oscar (1798-1845), French agronomist. *Reissue* \[2\]: 2002, 384 p.,... \[s.l.\] (Connaissance et Mémoires)... *Copy*: (n.v.). *English transl*. \[and abridgement\]: 1876, *Orange culture, a treatise on the citrus family* ... transl. from the French \[by S.D. Wilcox and Mrs. C.A. Cowgill\], expressly for "The Florida Agriculturist"... Jacksonville, Florida (Printed at the Office of "The Florida Agriculturist")... 65 p. Oct. *Copy*: USDA (photostat) (n.v.). *Microfilm*: Atlanta, Georgia (SOLINET) 1999, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: (n.v.). ##### n.36.000. Theorie der vegetabilischen Reprodukzion **Title** *Theorie der vegetabilischen Reprodukzion* \[sic\], oder: Untersuchungen über die Natur und die Ursachen der Abarten und Missgebilde... Wien (F. Stöckholzer) 1814. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1814, p. \[1\]-140. *Copies*: British Library (n.v.), UC-Berkeley. *Microfilm*: \[London\] (British Library), 1991, 1 reel (179 fr., 35 mm). *Copy*: British Library (n.v.). *Note*: (1) Evidently this is a German transl. of a portion of the *Traité* du *citrus*... 1811 (see nr. 35.999). (2) Transl. by Jan, Georg (1791-1866), Dir. of the Museum at Milan. *Italian transl*.: *Teoria* della *riproduzione vegetale*... Pisa (Presso Niccolò Capurro) 1816. Oct. *Publ*.: 1816, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-136. *Copies*: BM (lost in fire), K. *Note*: This is an Italian version of a portion of the *Traité* du *citrus*... (*fide* Jackson, I., Taxon 51: 832. 2002). ##### n.36.001. Pomona italiana **Title** *Pomona italiana*, ossia trattato degli alberi fruttiferi... Pisa (Presso Nicollò Capurro) 1817-1839. Fol. **Notes** *Publ*.: Issued originally in 41 fascs.... *314 pl*. (part col.; i.e. 160 hand-colored aquatints, 154 uncol.). *Copies*: BM (2 vols.), HH (2 vols. in 4) (n.v.), K (6 vols.) (n.v.), NYPL (5 vols.) (n.v.), USDA (1 vol. text, 1 vol. *pl.*). *Illus*.: Domenico del Pino, Antonio Serantoni (1780-1837), Bozzolini, Isabella and many others. *Note*: (1) The text, with the exception of the introduction, is unpaginated and the plates are unnumbered. There are two copies of each plate, one colored and one uncolored, except in 6 instances in which there is no uncolored copy. In all there are 160 colored plates (2 double) and 154 uncolored plates (2 double). Two further livraisons to contain frontispieces, tables, etc. based on the mss. left by Gallesio, were promised, but they never appeared. Some of the plates are printed on two sheets, which in some copies are joined. - (2) The BM copy is bound in two volumes; Vol. 1 dated 1817 (but p. viii signed 2 Sep 1839!) and Vol. 2 dated 1839. - (3) A copy of the entire work was offered for sale in 2005 for $US 286,700. *Electronic version*: (1) NYPL Digital Gallery (col. lith. only?). (2) Pomona Italiana di Giorgio Gallesio, Ist. Marsano, Genova (2004). ##### n.36.002. Pomona italiana **Title** *Pomona italiana*, parte scientifica, fascicolo primo, contenente il *trattato* del *fico*... Pisa (Presso Nicollò Capurro) 1820. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1820, p. \[i\]-xiii, \[1\]-123, schema (fold.). *Copies*: BM (n.v.), K, UC-Berkeley (n.v.).