Aureliano Brandolini

Aureliano Brandolini (1927 to 2008) was an Italian agronomist and development cooperation scholar, born in Calolziocorte. He graduated in agriculture at the University of Milan in 1950 and specialized in plant breeding and microtechnique at Iowa State University, graduating in 1955. He directed the horticultural research institute and the Lombardy center for horticultural, floricultural and fruit crops at Minoprio from 1964 to 1971 and the plant research center in Bergamo from 1976 to 1983, developing and producing special maize hybrids in Europe and Latin America, and from 1983 to 1993 he was general director of the Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare in Florence, managing agricultural development projects of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He assisted the Italian administration in Somalia on maize, sorghum and sesame from 1958 to 1960 and coordinated hybrid maize programs in Spain, Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.