Giacomo Damiani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian naturalist
Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1871
Place of Birth: Portoferraio, Tuscany, Italy
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1944
Profession: ornithologist
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Giacomo Damiani
- Giacomo Damiani (August 1871, Portoferraio – 1944) was an Italian ichthyologist and ornithologist Born into a wealthy family on Elba island, Giacomo Damiani graduated from the University of Genoa and became a teacher of Natural Sciences in secondary schools.
- By the age of 20, in 1891 he was in contact with Enrico Giglioli, the leading Italian ornithologist of the time, who was based at the museum in Florence.
- He was instrumental in assembling a zoological collection called “la collezione Elbana” at Villa San Martino (it:Villa di San Martino), now dispersed.
- Many of his specimens are in the La Specola museum in Florence.
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