Gaetano Savi
Gaetano Savi was an Italian naturalist., botanist and mycologist.
He was born in Florence and studied with Giorgio Santi and Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti. In 1798 he published Flora Pisana ; in 1801 the first edition of Trattato degli alberi della Toscana ; in 1808 Botanicon Etruscum ; and in 1818 Flora Italiana. He taught physics and botany at the University of Pisa and directed the botanical garden there from 1814. In 1816, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
His son was the geologist and ornithologist Paolo Savi.
