Prospero Alpini
Prospero Alpini was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus Alpinia was named in his honour by Carolus Linnaeus.
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Birth Place
Italy, Veneto
Date of Death
November 23rd, 1616
Died Aged
-353
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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