Ulisse Aldrovandi ( 1522 – 1605 ) was considered the " father of natural history ", which included the study of plants.

The word geology was first used by Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, then by Jean-André Deluc in 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1779.

* 1522 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist ( d. 1605 )

Like Gesner, Ulisse Aldrovandi, an encyclopedic naturalist began a 14-volume natural history with three volumes on birds, entitled ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII which was published from 1599 to 1603.

His sources are the Ornithologia of Ulisse Aldrovandi, Giovanni Pietro Olina's Uccelliera, John Ray's Synopsis methodica Avium & Piscium, and A natural history of the birds by Eleazar Albin.

* Aldrovandi, Ulisse ( Ulyssis Aldrovandus ) ( 1600 ): Ornithologia ( vol.

But most authors cited by Linnaeus – Eleazar Albin, Ulisse Aldrovandi, John Ray and Francis Willughby – called it lanius cinereus major or similar, which is a near-literal equivalent of the common name " Great Grey Shrike ".

Linnaeus also noted in his description that earlier authors had already written about the Eurasan Teal at length: Conrad Gessner had described it in the Historiae animalium as the anas parva (" small duck ") among his querquedulae (" teals "); Ulisse Aldrovandi had called it phascade or querquedula minor (" lesser teal "), and was duly referenced by Francis Willughby who named the species querquedula secunda Aldrovandi (" the second teal of Aldrovandus ").

* Aldrovandi, Ulisse ( Ulyssis Aldrovandus ) ( 1637 ): Ornithologia ( 2nd ed., vol.

Other major works were produced by William Turner, Pierre Belon, Guillaume Rondelet, and Ulisse Aldrovandi.

** Ulisse Aldrovandi

* 1600 – Beginning of the publication of the works of Ulisse Aldrovandi on birds.

The Renaissance author Ulisse Aldrovandi also spoke of chickens akin to Silkies.

In 1599, Ulisse Aldrovandi, a writer and naturalist at the University of Bologna, Italy, published a comprehensive treatise on chickens which is still read and admired today.

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The species was first classified as Pavo muticus by Carolus Linnaeus, although it was previously described in Europe by Ulisse Aldrovandi as " Pavo Iaponensis " based on a Japanese painting given to the pope from the Emperor of Japan.

The modern botanical name originates from Giuseppe Monti, who described Italian specimens in 1747 and named them Aldrovandia vesiculosa in honor of the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi.

Ulisse Aldrovandi ( 11 September 1522 – 4 May 1605 ) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe.

* The Civico Orto Botanico " Ulisse Aldrovandi " in San Giovanni in Persiceto is named in his honor.

* AMS Historica – Ulisse Aldrovandi – University of Bologna

* Michon Scott, " Ulisse Aldrovandi "

* Ulisse Aldrovandi at arthistoricum. net

* Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by and / or portraits of Ulisse Aldrovandi in. jpg and. tiff format.

Gaeta is also the centre of the Regional Park of Riviera di Ulisse, which includes Monte Orlando, Gianola and the Scauri Mounts, and the two promontories of Torre Capovento and that of Tiberius ' Villa at Sperlonga.

Monteverdi had moved to the city from Mantua and composed his last operas, Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria and L ' incoronazione di Poppea, for the Venetian theatre in the 1640s.

* Claudio Monteverdi composed at least eighteen operas, but only three ( L ' Orfeo, L ' incoronazione di Poppea, and Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria ) and the famous aria, Lamento, from his second opera L ' Arianna have survived.

Rather, " Ulisse " from Dante's Inferno is Tennyson's main source for the character, which has an important effect on the poem's interpretation.

* Grotta di Ulisse O Del Sangue " Cave of Ulysses ( Odysseus ) of the Blood " Official cave from Homer's The Odyssey

by literature historian Alessandro d ' Ancona, and from 1900 to 1918 by the mathematician Ulisse Dini.

After his long journey home from the Trojan Wars Ulisse, king of Ithaca, finally returns to his kingdom where he finds that a trio of villainous suitors have seized the realm and are importuning his faithful queen, Penelope.

These documents include: a letter from the unknown librettist of Le nozze d ' Enea in Lavinia, which discusses Monteverdi's setting of Il ritorno ; Badoaro's preface to the Il ritorno libretto, addressed to the composer, which includes the wording " I can firmly state that my Ulysses is more indebted to you than ever was the real Ulysses to the ever-gracious Minerva "; a 1644 letter from Badoaro to Michelangelo Torcigliani, which contains the words " Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria was embellished with the music of Claudio Monteverdi, a man of great fame and enduring name "; and finally a 1640 booklet Le Glorie della Musica which lists the Badoaro-Monteverdi pairing as the creators of the opera.

Arzela came from a poor household ; therefore he could not start his study until 1871, when he studied in Pisa under Enrico Betti and Ulisse Dini.

In Dante's Divine Comedy, in the eighth bolgia of the Inferno, Dante and his guide meet Ulisse among the false counsellors, and receive a variant accounting of his death " from the sea " in a five-month journey beyond the Pillars of Hercules that has ended in a whirlpool drowning as the mariners approach the mountain of Purgatory.

In 1896 he entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he studied under the notable mathematicians Ulisse Dini and Luigi Bianchi.

Ulisse Dini ( 14 November 1845 – 28 October 1918 ) was an Italian mathematician and politician born in Pisa.

This was followed by his debut with English National Opera the following year as Eurimaco in Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria, and his United States debut in 1990 in a series of concerts in Boston and New York.

( January 31, 1914 – September 22, 1992 ) known in secular life as Eraldo Ulisse Mauro Amantini, was an Italian Roman Catholic Passionist Priest and a Master Exorcist.

Ulisse Stacchini ( July 3, 1871 – 1947 ) was an Italian architect.

Ligozzi was commissioned to create some of the depictions found in the encyclopedic visual catalogue of the plant collections of Bolognese Ulisse Aldrovandi ( kept in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Uffizi Gallery ).

* Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in Patria, first performed in 1640, is an opera by Monteverdi based on the second half of Homer's Odyssey.

* Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria is first performed.

A late Example of Art Deco, which blended such styles with Fascist architecture, is the massive Milano Centrale railway station by Ulisse Stacchini, inaugurated in 1931.

A harpy in Ulisse Aldrovandi's Monstrorum Historia, Bologna, 1642 A medieval depiction of a harpy as a bird-woman.

Ulisse recalls his voyage in the Infernos 26th canto, in which he is condemned to the Eighth Circle of false counsellors for misusing his gift of reason.

Dante treats Ulisse, with his " zeal …/ T ' explore the world ", as an evil counsellor who lusts for adventure at the expense of his family and his duties in Ithaca.

Since Dante's Ulisse has already undertaken this voyage and recounts it in the Inferno, Ulysses ' entire monologue can be envisioned as his recollection while situated in Hell.