Filippo Morandini (1826−1903), botanico e patriota risorgimentale: inedite annotazioni per il Pavese, Lodigiano e il Colle San Colombano

Some notes of botanical interest handwritten by Filippo Morandini (1826-1903), botanist from Lodi, are published here for the first time. Annotated on a copy of Nocca and Balbis Flora Ticinensis kept at the library of the Botanical garden of the University of Pavia (Biblioteca unificata della Scienza e della Tecnica, Sezione di Ecologia del Territorio), they mostly represent floristic records from the provinces of Pavia and Lodi, and from the San Colombano hill. Every note is contextualised from a historical and phytogeographical viewpoint, allowing a comparison between the current and the mid-eighteenth century floras. As a result of a biographical investigation conducted at the State Archive of Pavia, his period as a student in Pavia is enlightened. Details are additionally provided about the Pavia botanical scene of 160 years ago, its key members (either famous or neglected) and its involvement in the Risorgimento events of that period