Violet Van Biesbroeck – Un mistero risolto.
In italiano sotto Violet Van Biesbroeck – A mystery solved. The little girl in the 1915 Christmas card to Clarence is the […]
Category: The Man
Naming of Cima Pollini
Our website and Facebook posting about the identity of Luigi Pollini (https://clarencebicknell.com/cima-pollini-who-was-pollini/) has triggered further input on the subject from readers. Most […]
Cima Pollini – who was Pollini?
Following a question from Jean-Félix Gandioli of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nice about Cima Pollini (photo, right) and Pollini’s relationship with […]
The Ancient King, Saxifraga florulenta
The Ancient King, l’Antico Re, was the name used by Clarence Bicknell and other botanists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth […]
Photo of Clarence in 1883 in Finalmarina; what does it tell us?
I received today a copy of an interesting photo of Clarence Bicknell. It was sent by Dr. Andrea De Pascale, PhD, Conservatore […]
Casa Fontanalba
In the summer of 1886, Clarence Bicknell rented a house at Castérino on the gentler slopes of Mount Bego, where he could […]
Bibliography
This list of books and papers written by Clarence will be developed with time, hopefully to include significant unpublished works in museums […]
The Church
Like many a younger son of a moneyed 19th-century family, Clarence Bicknell went into the Church. This was a matter of genuine […]
Casterino
Castérino is today a hamlet of half a dozen hotels and assorted farms and houses in a beautiful flat valley at 1,565 […]
Bordighera
In 1950, St-Tropez became famous by the arrival of movie stars. Bordighera was invented by a different charm of a different era. […]