> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 772](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333911) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9946-1) LSID 9946-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213351) QID Q213351 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spallanzani, Lazaro (1729-1799), Italian philosopher and experimental natural scientist; professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Reggio; from 1760-1769 professor of natural history of Modena, subsequently at Pavia; travelled in Switzerland and the Mediterranean area. **Abbreviated name**: *Spallanzani* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spall.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection SPAL|SPAL]] (715). – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 426; Ainsworth p. 5, 18-20, 165, 312; Barnhart 3: 307 (b. 12 Jan 1729, d. 11 Feb 1799); BM 5: 1986-1987, 8: 1228; Bossert p. 377; CSP 5: 767; Dawson p. 777; De Toni 1: cxviii; Dryander 3: 358, 394; DSB 12: 553-567 (C.E. Dolman; extensive list of ser. ref.); Herder p. 122; IH 1 (ed. 2): 103, (ed. 3): 131, (ed. 6): 364, (ed. 7): 237, 343; LS 25516; PR 8811-8813, ed. 1: 9780-9782; Quenstedt p. 407; Ratzeburg p. 471-474; Rehder 1: 199; Saccardo 1: 156, 2: 103; SIA 7230; Tucker 1: 662. #### Biofile - Anon., Arch, bot., Forli 5: 109-110. 1920. - Biagi, B., Riv. Stor. Sci. 39: 3-20. 1948. - Bulloch, W., Parasitology 14: 409-412. 1922; Hist bacteriol. 398. 1938. - Capparoni, P., Lazzaro Spallanzani, Torino 1941 (rev. 1948), 283 p. - Caullery, M., Inst. France, Acad. Sci., Notices et discours 2: 302-307. 1949 (statue; speech). - Freeman, R.B., Brit. nat. hist. books 323. 1980 (English transl. of main works). - Glass, B. et al., Forerunners of Darwin 51, 144, 170, 172, 243. 1968. - Ireland, N.O., Index Scientists of the world 569. 1962 (further sec. refs.). - Jimenez de la Espada, M., Anal. Soc. Españ. His. nat. 1: 163-181. 1872. - Jona, A., L'erbario di L. Spallanzani lettera al co. Leonardo Salimbeni. Reggio Emilia 1888, 6 p. (fide Saccardo, Malpighia 17: 272. 1902; herb. consists of 715 specimens). - Lütjeharms, W.J., Gesch. Mykol. 51, 156, 176, 206, 250. 1936. - Magner, L.N., Hist. life sci. 193-196. 1979. - Mon., G., *in* Encicl. ital. 32: 299-300. 1936. - Morc., R., *in* Grand Diz. encicl. Utet. 17: 583. 1972. - Nordenskiöld, E., Hist. biol. 247-248. 1935. - Pavesi, P., Mem. Soc. ital. Sci. nat. 6(3): 1-68. 1901 (S. in Pavia). - Pighini, G., Viaggi ed excursioni scientifiche di Lazzaro Spallanzani, Reggio Emilio 1929, xix, 443 p. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 968. 1863. - Prandi, D., Bibligrafia delle opere di Lazaro Spallanzani.. Florence 1951, 171 p. - Rosenwald, J., Étude sur Spallanzani biologiste, Paris, Thesis 1912, 58 p. - Rostand, J., Les origines de la biologie expérimentale et l'abbé Spallanzani, Paris 1951, 284 p. - Swainson, W., Taxidermy 332. 1840. - Talbott, J.H., Biogr. hist. med. 290-291. 1970. - Zittel, K.A. v., Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 137, 1438, 400, 415, 754. 1899; Hist. geol. palaeontol. 98, 99, 277. 1901. #### Composite works See J. Senebier for *Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération* des animaux et des plantes... Pavia 1787. Oct. #### Note See C.E. Dolman, DSB 12: 553-567, for a recent review of the literature on Spallanzani. – The major bibliography is Prandi (1951). #### Eponymy *Spallanzania* A.P. de Candolle (1830); *Spallanzania* Pollini (1816).