Background
Bartolomeo was born in Bologna in 1588. He was the elder brother of Giacinto (1605 - 1672), also a botanist.
Bartolomeo was born in Bologna in 1588. He was the elder brother of Giacinto (1605 - 1672), also a botanist.
Bartholomew had a degree in philosophy and medicine in 1610 at the University of Bologna.
He taught at first logic, then medicine, finally botany from 1619 at the University of Bologna.
After Uterverio died he managed the botanical garden, which was dedicated from 1620 to 1657.
When the plague affected Italy in 1630, he worked hard as a volunteer doctor for his city, also issuing a handbook entitled Method and easy to preserve, it is care of plague.
His name is particularly tied to the curatorship - entrusted by the Senate of Bologna - of some of the major works left unfinished by Aldrovandi, including the History of snakes and dragons in 1639 and the History of monsters of 1642, to which is added his Chronicles, under the title of 'Paralipomena accuratissima historiae omnium animalium". But Ambrosini also published works of his own, especially of medical and pharmacopeic.
Bartolomeo died in 1657 in Bologna.
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