Felice Giordano was an Italian

Italy

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 engineer and geologist.

Giordano was born at Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

. He had an important role in the organisation of a geological service in the Kingdom of Italy and in the foundation of the Italian Geological Society. In 1863, together with Quintino Sella

Quintino Sella

Quintino Sella was an Italian statesman and financier.-Biography:Sella was born at Sella di Mosso, in the Province of Biella....

 and Bartolomeo Gastaldi

Bartolomeo Gastaldi

Bartolomeo Gastaldi was an Italian geologist and palæontologist, and one the founders of the Club Alpino Italiano.Gastaldi was born in Turin, then capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia...

, he founded the Italian Alpine Club.

He died at Vallombrosa

Vallombrosa

Vallombrosa is a Benedictine abbey in the comune of Reggello , c. 30 km south-east of Florence, in the Apennines, surrounded by forests of beech and firs. It was founded by Giovanni Gualberto, a Florentine noble, in 1038 and became the mother house of the Vallumbrosan Order.It was extended...

in 1892.