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Camillo Acqua (in charge) (1917-1918) 
Francesco De Rosa (in charge) (1918-1919) 
Alessandro Trotter (in charge) (1919-1923) 
Giuseppe Zodda (in charge) (1923-1924) 
Giuseppe Lo Priore (1925-1928) 
Alessandro Trotter (in charge) (1928-1932) 
Giuseppe Catalano (1933- ) 
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ROME (ANCIENT) (1) 
GARDEN OF ANTONIUS CASTOR 
According to Pliny (Nat. Hist., XX, Chapter 100; XXV, 
Chapter 5), Antonius Castor, who lived in Rome in the first 
century A.D., had a botanic garden, which seems to have been 
the first one in Rome. In Book XXV (Chapter 5) Pliny says 
that he had the opportunity of visiting this garden in which 
Antonius, though he had passed his hundredth year, “ cultivated 
vast numbers of plants with the greatest care.” 
ROME (2) 
R. Ortro Boranico pELLA R. UniversitA pi RomMA 
Via Milano 75 
Established: Vatican Garden, 1566; Rome, 1660? (See Note.) 
Area: About 10 hectares. 
Note: As early as about 1288 there existed at the Vatican a phar- 
maceutical garden (not for instruction), planted by Simone Ge- 
nuense, physician to Pope Niccolo IV. Also NiccolO V had a 
similar garden at the Vatican about 1447, “ filled with all kinds of 
herbs.” A true scientific garden for instruction was instituted at 
the Vatican about 1566 by Michele Mercati, physician of Clement 
VIII, and a pupil of Cesalpino. The Botanic Garden of Rome 
was founded at the Vatican, says Saccardo (La Botanica in Italia. 
Venezia. 1895. p. 193), under Alexander VIII, about 1660, and 
was under the direction of G. B. Trionfetti. In 1870 the garden 
