The New International Encyclopædia/Raimondi, Antonio

RAIMONDI, rī-mō̇n′dē̇, Antonio (1826-90). An Italian geographer and naturalist, born in Milan. In 1850 he went to Peru, and was professor of botany in the University of Lima from 1862 to 1871. During this time he explored the country and gathered material for his proposed exhaustive work on the geography, botany, zoölogy, and ethnology of Peru. Three volumes on geography were published (1874-76-80) and called El Perú, but a part of the work was destroyed when Lima was captured in the Chilean War, and Raimondi died before completing it. His manuscripts became the property of the Lima Geographical Society.