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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.
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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 Louisiana Specola museum in Florence.
