Augusto Piccini

Fig. 4.5 Augusto Piccini at the age of 17. Kind gift of his niece to one of the authors...

Nicola Parravano, despite a relatively short career in science, was author of over 150 scientific monographs, of which less than half a dozen were associated with the period of his stay in Florence. In Florence, chemical research had been stalled for over 10 years, ever since Augusto Piccini died in 1905. Ugo Schiff, nearly 80 years old, was ubiquitous in the laboratory but mentally and physically unable to contribute vigorously to new discoveries. To compound matters, the Great War that was consuming the financial and intellectual resources of most of Europe, impelled many members of science departments in Florence to volunteer for the front lines. Consequently, on his arrival in Florence, Parravano found an Institute that was essentially a semi-desert. Even if it were not for the logistic problems that he found. 

Victor von Richter, Trattato di chimica inorganica, transl. Augusto Piccini (Torino etc. Loescher, Ermanno, 1885) 2nd ed. (Torino Loescher, 1889) 3rd ed. (Torino Loescher, 1895). 

SO PROFOUNDLY WELL-VERSED IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM AUGUSTO PICCINI... 

Giulio Provenzal, Augusto Piccini (1854-1905), Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e naturali, 21 (1930) 189-208 Id., Profili hio-hihliografici di chimici italiani. Sec. XV-Sec. XIX [Bio-bihliographical Profiles of Italian Chemist] (Roma Istituto Nazionale Medico Farmacologico Serono, 1938), 249-254. 

Augusto Piccini, Ossidazione dell acido titanico [Oxidation of Titanic Acid], Gazzetta chimica italiana 12 (1882) 151 13 (1883) 57. 

Augusto Piccini, Appendice del traduttore [Appendix of the Translator], in Victorvon Richter, Trattatodi cl imfcaf73orgaraca[TreatiseofInorganicChemistry](Torino Loescher, 1885), 404-459. 

Augusto Piccini, SuZlimitedellecombinazioniesulsistemaperiodicodeglielementi [On the Limit of the Combinations and the Periodic System of Elements] (Torino Loescher, 1885). 

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