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Michele Lessona (20 September 1823, Venaria Reale, Piedmont – 20 July 1894, Turin) was an Italian zoologist.

Michele Lessona became a specialist in amphibians. His accomplishments include translating certain works of Darwin, for example, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.

• Biography

• Eponyms

• Works

• References

• External links

Lessona studied medicine in Turin, afterwards relocating to Egypt, where he worked in a hospital outside of Cairo as hospital director at Karnak.cite-ref-0-1-0[1] From 1850 he studied natural sciences at Turin, and in the meantime found employment as a secondary school teacher. In 1854 he attained the chair of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Genoa.

In 1862, with Filippo de Filippi, he took part in a scientific and diplomatic mission to Persia, and after his return to Italy, he was named chair of zoology at the University of Bologna in 1863.cite-ref-0-1-1[1] In 1867 he became chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Turin.cite-ref-2[2] He was the first to translate Darwin's The Descent of Man into Italian, in 1871.cite-ref-3[3] He was also a Senator of the Kingdom from 1877 to 1894.cite-ref-0-1-2[1]

Lessona has several herpetological species named after him, such as Pelophylax lessonae,cite-ref-4[4] Diploglossus lessonae,cite-ref-edr-5-0[5] and Trapelus lessonae.cite-ref-edr-5-1[5]

Partial list

• Volere è potere, 1869. Florence.

• Carlo Darwin. 1883. Reissued by Kessinger, 2009, ISBN 978-1-104-06962-9.

• Venti anni fa 1884. Reissued by Kessinger, 2009, ISBN 978-1-104-52050-2.

• Le cacce in Persia. 1884. Rome. Reissued by Kessinger, 2010, ISBN 9781167477102.

cite-note-0-11. ↑ citerefbeolenswatkinsgrayson2013Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013-04-22). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.

cite-note-22. ↑ Library of the Department of Animal and Human Biology – Università degli Studi di Torino Archived 2013-02-18 at archive.today (biographical information)

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefglickshaffer2014Glick, Thomas F.; Shaffer, Elinor (2014-05-22). The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-78093-712-0.

cite-note-44. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1. ("Lessona", p. 124).

cite-note-edr-55. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Lessona", p. 156).

• Works by Michele Lessona at Project Gutenberg

• Works by or about Michele Lessona at the Internet Archive

• Google Books The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson.

• torinoscienza In Italian

• WorldCat Identities (list of published works)