Michele Tenore was an Italian

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 botanist active in Naples

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, Italy

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Tenore studied at the University of Naples, receiving his medical degree in 1800. There he was a friend of botanists Domenico Maria Leone Cirillo (1739-1799) and Vincenzo Petagna

Vincenzo Petagna

Vincenzo Petagna was an Italian biologist and physician, and a director of the Monte Oliveto botanical gardens. The plant Petagnaea gussonei is named in his honour....

 (1734-1810), made numerous botanical excursions into Abruzzo

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 and particularly Majella

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, and gave private courses in botany. In 1811 he succeeded Petagna to the university's chair in botany.

Tenore helped establish the Botanical Garden of Naples

Botanical Garden of Naples

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, and became its director in 1850. He also served as president of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze

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Selected works

• TENORE M., 1811-38 - Flora Napolitana. Napoli. 1-5. Stamperia Reale, Napoli. Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Napoli. Stamperia Francese, Napoli. Stamperia Francese, Napoli.
• TENORE M., 1832 - Memoria sulle peregrinazioni botaniche effettuate nella provincia di Napoli nella primavera del 1825 dal Cavaliere Michele Tenore colle indicazioni di alcune piante da aggiungersi alla Flora Napolitana e la descrizione di una specie di Ononis. Atti R. Accad. Scienze Cl. Fis. e St. Nat., 3: 49-88.
• TENORE M., 1843 - Rapporto intorno alle peregrinazioni de' soci ordinari M. Tenore e G. Gussone eseguite in Luglio 1834. Atti R. Accad. Scienze 5(1): 283-290. Napoli 1843 (in collab. con G. Gussone).
• TENORE M., 1843 - Osservazioni botaniche raccolte in un viaggio eseguito per diversi luoghi della provincia di Terra di Lavoro e di Abruzzo nell'està del 1834 dai soci Tenore e Gussone. Ibid.: 291-334, 1 tav. Napoli 1843 (In collab. con G. Gussone).
• TENORE M., 1846 - Osservazioni intorno all'Erbario Centrale di Firenze (23 settembre 1845). p. 852. Napoli 1846.
• TENORE M., 1856 - Una gita all'Isola d'Ischia. Lettera al Sig. N. N. Giornale "L'Iride" 1, n. 20 (estr. pp. 6) Napoli, Tip. Gazzette de' Tribunali ( 14x21.5).