BARTOLOMEO

AMBROSINI (1588-1657)  , Italian naturalist, was born and died at Bologna . He was a pupil of Aldrovandi, several of whose works he published, and whom he succeeded eventually as director of the university botanical garden . He studied at the university, and became successively professor of philosophy, of botany and of medicine; and during the plague of 163o in Bologna he worked assiduously for the relief of the sufferers . He was the author of several medical works of some importance in their day . His brother, GIAcINTO AMBROSINI (1605-1672), was a distinguished botanist, who succeeded Bartolomeo as professor of botany and director of the university garden in 1657 . He published a catalogue of its plants and also a botanical dictionary .