Massimo Trentini Collection

Descriptive sheet

Name: Trentini Collection

Type: book collection 

Chronological details: second half of the 20th century.

Size: 109 volumes

Original owner: Prof. Massimo Trentini

Donors: heirs

Historical-biographical profile: Massimo Trentini was born on 18 March 1950. A zoologist and biologist, for over 30 years, as from 1977, he taught and performed research in the Faculty of Veterinary Medical Sciences of the University of Bologna, in 2001 becoming Degree Programme Director in Aquaculture and Fish Pathology (today known as Aquaculture and Fish Production Hygiene) in Cesenatico. An expert in reproductive biology and cytogenetics of marine and freshwater crustaceans and molluscs, for decades he also worked in the fields of entomology, parasitology, and the reproduction and genetic characterisation of fish populations. He died in 28 September 2011.

Type and date of acquisition: 2014 donation

Conservation status: good

Cataloguing status: fully catalogued

Research tool: extraction of titles from the Library Catalogue

Reading mode: dedicated section (ACQ TRENT); some volumes can be borrowed, others are for on site reading only

Subject areas covered: aquatic biology and ecology, aquaculture