Bruno Tozzi: Difference between revisions

Tozzi was born in [[Montevarchi]] and his father Francesco di Simone Tozzi came from [[Florence]]. He was ordained in the Vallombrosan Order on May 5, 1676. He took an interest in the study of nature, travelling into the Alps and across Italy, collecting natural history specimens. Along with [[Pier Antonio Micheli]] he took an interest in the fungi and described many species with illustrations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Proskauer|first=Johannes|date=1965|title=Bruno Tozzi’s little mystery, or a quarter millennium of confusion|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00837792.1965.10669812|journal=Webbia|language=it|volume=20|issue=1|pages=227–239|doi=10.1080/00837792.1965.10669812|issn=0083-7792|url-access=subscription|doi-access=free}}</ref> His manuscript ”Sylva fungorum” is preserved at the [[National Central Library (Florence)|Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence]]. Tozzi was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1715 and corresponded with [[James Petiver]], [[Hans Sloane]] and other naturalists of the period. He was a founder of the Società Botanica Fiorentina. He lived a solitary life as a monk and died in Vallombrosa.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ubrizsy Savoia|first=Andrea|date=2013|title=Federico Cesi’s Mycological Codex and its copies|url=|journal=Rendiconti Lincei|language=en|volume=24|issue=4|pages=341–348|doi=10.1007/s12210-013-0251-3|issn=2037-4631|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=[A.F.D.]|url=https://dlc.mpdl.mpg.de/dlc/view/escidoc:74705:4/single/371|title=Serie di ritratti d’uomini illustri toscana con gli elogi istorici dei medesimi|year=1774|editor=Allegrini, Giuseppe|volume=2|pages=173–176|lang=it}}</ref>