AdminHistory | Giuseppe Antonio Risso (1777-1845), known as Antoine Risso (in nissart Jousé Antoni Risso ) was a French naturalist and artist.
Risso was born in Nice in the Duchy of Savoy on 8 April 1777, to Jean-Baptiste Risso (1736-1789) and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published Ichthyologie de Nice (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (1818–1822). He died in Nice on 25 August 1845. |