Career
Vittore Ghiliani was an "Adviser" of the Italian Entomological Society from 1869–1871 and Vice-President from 1871 until 1878. He published a series of scientific papers on the Coleoptera of Sardinia, Sicily, Spain and Brasil and edited by Lorenzo Camerano an important list of species of Coleoptera from Piedmont. In Compte rendu des hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entokologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846.
Memoire della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino (2)13: 19–94 Spinola comments that M. Ghiliani in 1846 embarked to Brazil where he remained for three years,having disembarked in Belém, collecting insects of all the orders.