Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (died 1856)

Agostino Bassi

Italian entomologist (1773-1856)

Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi, was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease. He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a…