Atti dei Georgofili

Sismondi e il riconoscimento delle specie vegetali

Galileo Magnani

Pagine: 16
Contenuto in: Atti dei Georgofili 2014

Copyright 2014 Accademia dei Georgofili

Abstract

Sismondi and the recognition of plant species. Found recently, the notebook Botanique de Pescia ou Collection des Plantes non Gravées du Val de Nievole en Toscane, rangées périodiquement selon l’ordre de leur floraison, dans l’année 1797 by Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde De Sismondi (1773-1842), unfinished work for the lyrics but not for autographed images, is a document that can clarify the approach to botany of the Geneve intellectual, his relationship with it, the results arising from its practice on the classification of plants in the years of his youth, at the time of the drafting of the Tableau de l’agriculture Tuscany (1801). The ability of the eye and the brush of Sismondi in depicting some wild plants found in a typical agricultural environment, correspond to his willingness to put himself in front of nature, according to scientific criteria, overcoming the eighteenth-century figure of the ‘connoisseur’ of plants.