Pietro Arduino
Italian botanist
Born on: July 18, 1728Died on: April 13, 1805
Aged: 76 years 269 days (920 months)
Gender: Male
Birth Sign: Cancer
Pietro Arduino was an Italian botanist. He was custodian of the Botanical Garden of Padua in the period between the death of Giulio Pontedera and the appointment of his successor, Giovanni Marsili.
Arduino was the first to give courses in agricultural science at an Italian university. The geologist Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795) was his brother, and the agriculturalist Luigi Arduino (1750–1833) was his son.
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