Michelangelo Tilli enthusiastic supporter of the garden, arranging for the importation of plants from as far afield as the Americas. He became a member of the Royal Society in 1708. Michelangelo Tilli Michelangelo Tilli or Michaele Angelo Tilli (1655 Castelfiorentino – 1740 Pisa) was an Italian physician and botanist, noted for his publication of ""Catalogus Plantarum Horti Pisani"" (Florence 1723). Michelangelo was born in Castelfiorentino, the son of Desiderio Tilli and Lucrezia Salvadori. In 1677 he graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Pisa and in 1681 was appointed as naval surgeon by Cosimo III. He embarked on a Tuscan
What Was Lost for which O'Flynn received a prize of £2,500. It was BBC Radio 5 Live's Book of the Month in March 2007. What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. O'Flynn found inspiration for "What Was Lost" while she was