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    Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 1553 – 6 February 1617) was a Venetian...
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  • with the remaining 7% of unassessable origin. The Italian botanist Prospero Alpini stayed in Egypt for several years in the 1580s. He introduced to Latin...
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  • from Crema, Lombardy Prospero Alpini (1553-1617), a Venetian physician and botanist known by the author abbreviation "Alpino" Alpini, an ancient tribe that...
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    among the Romans; a dish of marsh mallow was one of their delicacies. Prospero Alpini stated in 1592 that a plant of the mallow kind was eaten by the Egyptians...
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  • restaurant in Detroit, Michigan The Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers of the Italian Army Prospero Alpini, and Italian physician and botanist...
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  • Benedict XIV (1675–1758), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Venetian physician and botanist Prospero Amatong (1931–2009), Philippine...
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    first botanical description was in the De medicina Aegyptiorum by Prospero Alpini (1592), looking at fruits that he observed in Egypt from an unknown...
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    introduced to the mainland of Europe. In 1591 Venetian botanist-physician Prospero Alpini became the first to publish a description of the coffee plant in Europe...
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    the Mediterranean Sea. In 1580 the Venetian botanist and physician Prospero Alpini imported coffee into the Republic of Venice from Egypt. The first coffeehouse...
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  • botanischen Pflanzennamen, by Helmut Genaust, year 1996. The Latin botanist Prospero Alpini (died 1617) visited Egypt in the 1580s. He called the plant "Abelmosch"...
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    far back as the Twelfth Dynasty. The tree was described in 1592 by Prospero Alpini under the name 'agihalid'. Linnaeus regarded it as a species of Ximenia...
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    universalis Oxoniensis t.2: 533; Morison states that according to Prospero Alpini, the Egyptians called the plant "mosch", and the seed "abelmosch"....
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    needed] They are also used as a herbal remedy. The genus is named for Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants....
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    and published in the journal Asiatic Researches It is named after Prospero Alpini, a 17th-century Italian botanist who specialized in exotic plants....
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    Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (d. 1616) November 23 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) November 28 – George More...
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  • Frédéric-Louis Allamand Ruth F. Allen Carlo Allioni Lucile Allorge Prospero Alpini Benjamin Alvord Adeline Ames Janaki Ammal Eliza Frances Andrews Agnes...
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    the Mediterranean Sea. In 1580 the Venetian botanist and physician Prospero Alpini imported coffee into the Republic of Venice from Egypt, and soon coffee...
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  • Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed. Prospero Alpini publishes De Medicina Egyptiorum in Venice, including accounts of coffee...
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    Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Marostica. Prospero Alpini, physician and botanist, born 1553 Giovanni Battaglin, cyclist, Giro...
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    Alpinia was coined by Carl Linnaeus in honour of the Italian botanist Prospero Alpini, and the species epithet caerulea is derived from the Latin word caeruleus...
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  • of Spain 1732: John Horsley - Britannia Romana (posthumous). 1735: Prospero Alpini - Historiæ Ægypti Naturalis (posthumous). 1736: Francis Drake - Eboracum...
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  • anthropologists as one of the three sub-races of the Caucasian race Prospero Alpini, also as published as Prosper Alpinus (1553–1617), a Venetian physician...
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  • Butler, Irish|Irish alchemist (at sea) (born c. 1534). February 6 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (born 1553). February 11 – Giovanni...
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    publication Viaggio di Monte Baldo (1566) of Francisco Calzolari. Prospero Alpini (1553–1617) published in 1592 the highly popular account of overseas...
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  • Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538) 1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1553) 1685 – Charles II of England...
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  • Piscibus, Frankfurt 1610 Monstror. Historia, cum fig., Bologna 1642 Prospero Alpini, de Medicina Medicae, Patav. 1611 de Plantis Egypti, Patav. 1640 de...
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  • Brunswick-Lüneburg, youngest son of Henry the Middle (d. 1549) 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French...
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    Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor-General for Ireland (d. 1616) November 23 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617) November 28 – George More...
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    Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Oels and Duke of Bernstadt (b. 1545) February 3 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist from the Republic of Venice (b. 1553)...
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  • showed that the infectious agent of scrapie contains no nucleic acid Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), Italian botanist, the first in Europe to describe coffee...
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