Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone

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Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone (21 March 1761, Cremona-2 May 1842) was an Italian collector. Ponzone assembled large collections of art and natural history. These are now in the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone. He bequeathed his library to Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. In 1789 he wrote a paper on moths.

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Cesare Conci et Roberto Poggi (1996), Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. Memorie della Società entomologica Italiana, 75 : 159-382.