Species Negria melicoides

For Cristoforo Negri (1809–1896), Italian geographer, politician and professor of political science. He studied at universities in Pavia, Graz, Vienna and Prague. In 1843 he became professor of political science at the University of Padua. During the 1848 war of independence he sided with the Italians, but after the fall of Vicenza, in June 1848, was compelled to leave for political reasons. He moved to Turin where he became university rector. He was the founder in 1866 and first president of the Italian Geographic Society, which he directed until 1872, and was re-elected president again in 1880. During his career he became involved in diplomatic missions to many European countries. His last official activity was the management of the general consulate in Hamburg, from 1873–1874. He became a senator in 1890. After that he retired to Turin.