Felice Cassone

  • Not to be confused with Felice Antonio Casoni (1559-1634)
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Felice Cassone (5 May 1815 Pontestura - 22 October 1854 Torino),[1] was an Italian botanist and physician from the Piedmont region, notable for being the author of "Flora medico-farmaceutica", a 6-volume work published in Torino with typography by Giuseppe Cassone between 1847 and 1852.[2][3]The standard author abbreviation Cassone is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

Felice Cassone also published "Iconografia Vegetale" in 2 volumes between 1847 and 1849.[5][6]

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  1. ^ https://archive.org/stream/memoriedelrealei25real/memoriedelrealei25real_djvu.txt [bare URL plain text file]
  2. ^ "Felice Cassone - Flora Medico-Farmaceutico - 1847/1852".
  3. ^ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries".
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Cassone.
  5. ^ "Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli - Casa d'Aste - Gonnelli Casa d'Aste".
  6. ^ https://www.gonnelli.it/uploads/auctions/A23_2017_LIBRI.pdf [bare URL PDF]