Logan Gabriella Berti
History Department, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Nuncius. 2004;19(2):601-28.
The first Italian women described as botanists by their male peers were active during the Risorgimento. They were few in numbers and only one of them, Elisabetta Fiorini, was recognized for her extensive contributions to the field of cryptogams in Italy by being nominated to important Italian scientific academies. No such recognition was ever alloted to the other female botanists who acted as collectors, correspondents and/or patrons to male botanists, had their own garden of exotic plants, or discovered a new species of phanerogams, and occasionally published on the subject. This study will show that a woman could still belong to Italian scientific academies in the nineteenth century, if like Fiorini, she chose to practice science in a way that was considered at par with that of male scientists.
第一批被男性同行称为植物学家的意大利女性活跃于复兴运动时期。她们人数寥寥，其中只有伊莉莎贝塔·菲奥里尼因对意大利隐花植物领域的广泛贡献而被提名为意大利重要科学学会成员，从而获得认可。其他女性植物学家，她们有的担任男性植物学家的采集者、通信员和/或资助人，有的拥有自己的 exotic 植物园，有的发现了新的显花植物物种，偶尔还发表相关主题的文章，但从未获得过这样的认可。这项研究将表明，在 19 世纪，女性仍然可以加入意大利科学学会，前提是像菲奥里尼一样，选择以一种被认为与男性科学家相当的方式从事科学研究。 （注：exotic 原文有误，可能是 exotic，意为外来的、异国的 ）
