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].
Two of his sons also became natural scientists: The geologist and ornithologist Paolo Savi and the botanist Pietro Savi.
He was honoured in 1808, when botanist Constantine [Samuel Rafinesque] published Savia, this genus is now a synonym of Amphicarpaea. Then in 2008, Ignaz Urban and Petra Hoffmann published Heterosavia which is a genus of the family of Phyllanthaceae.