280 BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 
collected works, literary, scientific, and medical, were pub- 
lished in nine octavo volumes in Milan, 1809-1811. This 
collection includes his life and letters, and embraces one 
Fic. 89.—Francesco REDI, 1626-1697. 
volume of sonnets. The book that has been referred to as 
containing his experiments was entitled Esperienze Intorno 
Alla Generazione Degl’Insetti, and first saw the light in 
quarto form in Florence in 1668. It went through five 
editions in twenty years. Some of the volumes were trans- 
