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ROME (ANCIENT) (1) 
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. Orto Botanico DELLA R, UNIversirA pi RoMA 
Via Milano 75 
Established: 1884. Area: About 10 hectares. 
Directors: 
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. Michele Mercati (probably under supervision of Andrea 
Cesalpino) (1566-1593) 
Andrea Bacci (Baccio?) (1593-7) 
Castore Durante ( ?-1600) 
Giovanni Feber (supplemented temporarily by Antonio 
Nanni) (?-1630) 
Pietro Castelli (1630-1638) 
Giovanni Benedetto Sinibaldi (1638-7) 
Domenico Panarola (1646—?) 
Francesco Sinibaldi (1667—?) 
Giovanni Battista Trionfetti (1676-1706) 
. Piétro Assalti (1706—?) 
. Antonio Volpi (?+?) 
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. Cosimo Grilli (1728-?) 
. Angelo Marcangeli (?-?) 
; ays De Panicis (21747) 
Antonio Celestino Cocchi (1726—?) 
. A. Cinnaneschi (1748-?) (Prof. of theoretical botany ) 
: a F. Maratta (Director, assisted by Lib. Sabbati) (1748-?) 
Giorgio Bonelli (?-1777) 
Niccolo Martelli (Director and Prof. of botany) (1777- 
1805 ) 
M. A. Poggioli (Prof. of theoretical botany) (1805-1843) 
