Education
He studied in Milan and at the University of Pavia, where he attended the classes given by Giuseppe L. Moretti (1782–1853).
He studied in Milan and at the University of Pavia, where he attended the classes given by Giuseppe L. Moretti (1782–1853).
He became a doctor of medicine in 1826 with a thesis entitled Tentamen mycologicum seu Amanitarum illustratio where he described 14 species of the genus Amanita. Outside of several publications on diseases of silkworms, he specialised in obstetrics, working in Milan. He is the author of several important works on Italian mushroom species.
Agaricus silvicola
Amanita echinocephala (Vittad) Quel.
The Shaggy parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes)
Rhizopogon vulgaris
Several species of Tuber
Amanita vittadinii (Moretti) Vitt. is named in his honour.