TARAMELLI, TORQUATO. - Geologist, b. at Bergamo on 15 Oct. 1845, d. at Pavia on 31 March 1922.
He was introduced to the study of geology by his teacher Stoppiani. At the age of 21 he began his teaching career at the Technical Institute of Udine, where he left a rich mineralogical and palaeontological collection; in 1875 he obtained the chair of geology at the University of Pavia, where he taught for 44 years. His studies chiefly concern the formations of Veneto, Lombardy, the Emilian Apennines, and the Po Valley. He was a precursor of modern views in the field of geomorphology and Quaternary glacialism. An ardent patriot and Garibaldian (he fought in 1866 with the 1st volunteer regiment in Trentino), he was a true master through his extensive and passionate scientific and teaching activity, and through the example of uprightness and piety that he gave as a convinced and practising Catholic.
T. T., Una bella figura di scienziato e di credente, Pavia 1922; M. Gortani, T. T., in Boll. Soc. geol. ital., 41 (1923), pp. XLIII-LXIV; M. PISESA, s. V. ENOCH. Ital., XXXIII, p. 255. Carmelo Maxia