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{{Short description|Italian nobleman and amateur naturalist}}
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'''Count Nicolò Bertolucci Contarini''' (26 September 1780 – 16 April 1849) was an Italian nobleman and amateur naturalist. He collected plants and insects around Venice and published several catalogues.
Contarini was born in [[Venice]] in a noble family, the son of Senator Bertucci Paolo. He was sent to the Barnabite college in Udine where he received a classical education. In his private time he began to study natural history through direct field studies and collected plants from the region and built up a herbarium. From 1830 he began to write about insects in agriculture and in 1840 he was inducted into the Venetian institute of sciences, letters and arts. He published a catalogue of the birds and insects of Padova and Venice.<ref>{{Citation |last=Ragusa |first=Salvatore |title=As time goes by: a profile of Italian acarology |date=2002 |work=Acarid Phylogeny and Evolution: Adaptation in Mites and Ticks |pages=1–20 |editor-last=Bernini |editor-first=Fabio |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-017-0611-7_1 |access-date=2024-05-20 |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Netherlands |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-0611-7_1 |isbn=978-90-481-5950-5 |editor2-last=Nannelli |editor2-first=Roberto |editor3-last=Nuzzaci |editor3-first=Giorgio |editor4-last=de Lillo |editor4-first=Enrico}}</ref> He described several species of Cecidomyiid flies including one that he found on the wings of birds. He also took an interest in marine biology, describing new species of ''Actinia'' and sea anemones in 1841. Along with [[Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini|Giuseppe Meneghini]] and [[Giovanni Zanardini]] he went on trips to lagoons and mountains.<ref name=":0" /> His collection of about 500 bird specimens, and a herbarium are part of the [[Museo Correr]] in Venice. The herbarium was reorganized by Vincenzo Lazari and [[Pier Andrea Saccardo]] around 1860.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Dröscher |first=Ariane |title=Growing Up in a Progressive Environment |date=2021 |work=Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820–1848 |pages=99–118 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-85343-3_5 |access-date=2024-05-20 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-85343-3_5 |isbn=978-3-030-85342-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Silvestri, Daniela |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nicolo-bertolucci-contarini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |year=1983 |volume=28 |chapter=Contarini, Nicolò Bertolucci}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bousquet |first=Yves |date=2016-04-25 |title=Litteratura Coleopterologica (1758–1900): a guide to selected books related to the taxonomy of Coleoptera with publication dates and notes |journal=ZooKeys |issue=583 |pages=1–776 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.583.7084 |doi-access=free |issn=1313-2970 |pmc=4868922}}</ref>
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