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FERRARA 
Istituto Orto Boranico DELL’ UNIVERSITA 
Via del Paradiso, Ferrara 
Established: 1771. 
Directors: 
. Giuseppe Parolini (1771-1794) 
Francésco Maria Giacomini (1795-1801) 
Giacomo Andreasi (1802-1803) 
- Antonio Campana (1803-1832) 
. University closed (1803-1815) 
. Garden attached to Lyceum 
. Francesco Jachelli (1832-1862) 
Domenico Jachelli (1862-1878) 
Caro Massalongo (1878-1918) 
10. Augusto Begninot (1918-1920) 
11. Emilio Carazzoni (1920-1922) 
12, Eugenio Baroni (1922-1930) 
13. Roberto Savelli (1930-1931) 
14. Luigi Buscaglioni 
PS, Cano Danpetlett (AS lel282) 
16. Felici Giselli (1932— ) 
Source of income: Governmental appropriations. Li ibrary: 
About 1200 volumes. Herbariwn: About 5000 specimens (speci- 
ally the flora of Ferrara). Plantations: Systematic. 
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FLORENCE (FIRENZE) (1) 
Orto &E Musto Boranico 
(R. Instituto pr Strupt SupError) 
Via Lamarmora 4, Firenze 
Established: About 1550. 
Note: Cosmo I entrusted the foundation of this Garden to Luca 
Ghini, who was also the first director of the Garden at Pisa (1547 
cir.-1554). No official documents appear to be known which give 
the exact date of the founding of the Florence Garden. It is 
known to have been in existence in 1557, having been planted as 
a garden of simples in the vicinity of San Marco. After a period 
of neglect it was flourishing again in 1718, under the care of the 
Botanical Society of Florence. In 1737 a portion of the Boboli 
