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public of Venice enacted June 29, 1545, on the proposal of Francis 
Bonafede, who first conceived and urged the idea in 1543. Ten 
years earlier (1533) the same scholar, Professor of Medicine at 
the University of Padua, proposed and secured the establishment 
there of the professorship of simples (Lectura Simplicium). 
This chair, the first professorship of botany in Europe, was 
founded by a decree of the Venetian Senate, and Bonafede was 
made the first professor. The Botanic Garden was established 
primarily to meet the need which Bonafede felt of illustrative ma- 
terial to enrich his lectures. 
Directors: 
Luigi (Aluigi) Squalermo (called Anguillara) (1546-1561) 
Melchiore Guilandino (1561-1589) 
Giacom’ Antonio Cortuso (1590-1603) 
Prospero Alpini (Alpino) (1603-1616) 
Giovanni Prevozio (Prevost) (1616-1631) 
Giovanni Rhodio (suddenly resigned) (1631) 
Alpino Alpini (1631-1637) 
Giovanni Veslingio (Wesling) (1638-1649) 
Giorgio Dalla Torre (1649-1681) 
Jacopo Pighi (1681-1683) 
. Felice Viali (1683-1719) 
Giulio Pontedera (1719-1757) 
Pietro Arduino (Acting) (1757-1760) 
. Giovanni Marsili (1760-1794) 
Giuseppe Antonio Bonato (1794-1835) 
Roberto De Visiani (1836-1878) 
Pier’ Andrea Saccardo (1878-1915) 
Augusto Béguinot, acting (March 1, 1916-Oct. 15, 1921) 
19. Giuseppe Gola (Oct. 16, 1921- 
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Open free daily. Source of income: The State. Plantations: 
Herbaceous plants. Arboretum. Fruticetum. Library: More 
than 18,800 v olumes ; 25,000 pamphlets. Founded in 1770 by Gio- 
vanni Marsili. Contains one of the largest known collections of 
portraits of botanists (more than 600), begun by De Visiani and 
continued by Saccardo. Includes Saccardo’s personal aaa 
library of 300 volumes and some 7000 pamphlets, and A. Fortt’ 
personal algological library of 150 eee and 9000 Sera 
Herbarium: Initiated at the beginning of the 19th century by Bo- 
