Prospero Alpini, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Prospero Alpini

Venetian physician and botanist

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1553

Place of Birth: Marostica, Veneto, Italy

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1616

Profession: physician, botanist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 1553 – 6 February 1617) was a Venetian physician and botanist.
He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua.
He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value.
His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature.
The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.



Alternative names	Leandro da Ponte
Description	Italian painter younger brother of Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of Jacopo Bassano
Date of birth/death	10 June 1557 / 10 June 1557	15 April 1622
Location of birth/death	Bassano del Grappa	Venice
Work period	Manierism
Work location	Vienna, Venice, Bassano del Grappa
Authority control	: Q1349666 VIAF: 22414872 ISNI: 0000 0001 1606 4701 ULAN: 500015945 LCCN: nr91029695 WGA: BASSANO, Leandro WorldCat