BARTOLOMEO BIZIO'S LETTER TO THE MOST EMINENT PRIEST, ANGELO BELLANI, CONCERNING THE PHENOMENON OF THE RED-COLORED POLENTAa
BARTOLOMEO BIZIO'S LETTER TO THE MOST EMINENT PRIEST, ANGELO BELLANI, CONCERNING THE PHENOMENON OF THE RED-COLORED POLENTAa
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巴托洛梅奥·比齐奥致最杰出牧师安杰洛·贝拉尼的信,内容涉及红色波伦塔现象a
DOI:
10.1128/jb.9.6.527-543.1924
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发表时间:
1924
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Bartolomeo Bizio
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作者:
P. Merlino;Bartolomeo Bizio
Three years have already elapsed since the strange reddening of "polenta" (corn meal mush) created such a stir. And as I have ever since been reminded of it by the return of summer, I feel that I should give exact information regarding all the circumstances which accompany that phenomenon and of the special characteristics of this new organism, adding thereto a brief review of the fortunes of those things that I, before any other, made public concerning this subject. In order not to omit anything strictly pertinent to the topic, I deem it necessary to tell you the date of what may be considered to be the first appearance of the phenomenon. Without a doubt it was first observed in the early part of July, 1819, although I am of the opinion that it has manifested itself at other times in the warm season whenever circumstances conducive to its production have combined. Nor do we need the testimony of peasants to prove this, as Melo1 thinks. Indeed such testimony would lead us to think the contrary. Why then did they marvel and create such an excitement when they saw on the aforementioned date the surface of the polenta take on a brilliant red color? If, according to Melo, they knew that such a reddening takes place in warm, rainy seasons, it follows that it would have been