Augusto Napoleone Berlese

Augusto Napoleone Berlese (1864 to 1903) was an Italian botanist and mycologist, born in Padua and dying in Milan. He was the brother of the entomologist Antonio Berlese, with whom he founded the journal Rivista di patologia vegetale in 1892. He studied natural sciences at the University of Padua, worked there as a botanical assistant from 1885 to 1889, and later taught at the viticulture school in Avellino and at the universities of Camerino and Sassari. In 1901 he was appointed professor of phytopathology at the agricultural college in Milan. He wrote the multi-volume Icones Fungorum and I parasiti vegetali delle piante coltivate o utili, a work on the plant parasites of cultivated or useful plants.