Filippo De Filippi
1814–67
Italian zoologist, embryologist, and geologist. Professor of zoology and director of the Museum of Zoology, Turin, 1847. Travelled as naturalist with a diplomatic and scientific mission to Persia in 1862; with a scientific voyage of global circumnavigation, 1865–7. Advocated belief in a limited transmutation of species in 1855. His lecture "Man and the Monkeys", delivered in Turin in January 1864, initiated the public debate on Darwin’s work in Italy.
Sources
Corsi 1983, DBI
Pancaldi 1991.
Bibliography
Corsi, Pietro. 1983. ‘Lamarckiens’ et ‘Darwiniens’ à Turin (1812–1894). In De Darwin au Darwinisme: science et idéologie, edited by Yvette Conry. Paris: J. Vrin.
DBI: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Edited by Alberto M. Ghisalberti et al. 100 vols. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. 1960–2020.
Pancaldi, Giuliano. 1991. Darwin in Italy. Science across cultural frontiers. Translated by Ruey Brodine Morelli. Updated and expanded edition. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press.
