> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 187](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189658) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7559-1) LSID 7559-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1089652) QID Q1089652 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Petagna, Vincenzo (1734-1810), Italian botanist, physician and entomologist; professor of botany and director of the Monteoliveto botanical garden at Napoli. **Abbreviated name**: *Petagna* \[standard form in IPNI: *Petagna*\] #### Herbarium and types At the agricultural college of Portici ([[Collection POR|POR]]). – Some letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 72; Bossert p. 307; Dryander 3: 23, 42, 149; Kew 4: 281; LS 20506-20507; PR 7070-7071 (ed. 1: 7906); Rehder 5: 663; Saccardo 1: 126, 2: 84, cron. p. xxix; SO 700c, 758a, 1230a; Tucker 1: 551; Zander ed. 10, p. 701, ed. 11, p. 799 (b. 17 Jan 1734, d. 6 Oct 1810). #### Biofile - Anon., (Vulpes, D.B.?), Atti Ist. Incoragg. Sci. nat. Napoli 2: 340-342. 1818 (obit., b. 17 Jan 1734, d. 6 Oct 1810). - Balsamo, F., Bull. Orto bot. Napoli 3: 45. 1913 (biogr. sketch, portr., epon., b. 17 Jan 1730,d. 6 Oct 1810). - Comes, O., Atti congr. bot. int. Genova 1892: 124-126. 1893 (herb. at Portici). (see also Bot. Centralbl. 56: 137-138. 1893). - Costa, O.G., Proc. entom. Soc. London 4: xvii-xviii. 1847. - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 294. 1977. - Swainson, W., Taxidermy 292. 1840. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 164. 1903, 3(3): 180. 1905. #### Eponymy *Petagnaea* T. Caruel (1894); *Petagnana* J.F. Gmelin (1792); *Petagnia* Gussone (1827); *Petagnia* Rafinesque (1814). ### Publications ##### n.7744. Institutiones botanicae **Title** Vincentii Petagnae in regio neapolitano lyceo botanices professons *Institutiones botanicae*... Neapoli \[Napoli\] (\[1:\] Typis Josephi Mariae Porcelli... \[2-5:\] Typis Petri Perger...) 1785-1787, 5 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Inst. bot.* **Notes** *1*: (De Philosophia botanica): 1785, p. \[i\]-xv, 1-285, \[286, approb.\], *pl. 1-10* (uncol. copp., Lomanto del.). *2*: (De plantis in specie): 1787, p. \[i-iv\], 1-576. *3*(id.): 1787, p. \[i\], 577-1194. *4* (id.): 1787, p. \[i\], 1195-1766. *5* (id.): 1787, p. \[i\], 1767-2142, \[1-48, index\]. *Copies*: FI, G, USD A.