# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giacinto-cestoni
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:09.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giacinto-cestoni"
name: "Giacinto Cestoni"
slug: "giacinto-cestoni"
description: "Diacinto Cestoni was an Italian naturalist, biologist, botanist, entomologist. Born in Montegiorgio, he was self-taught. He lived and worked at Livorno where he led an apothecary next to the port. He studied insects, animals, plants and drugs. Cestoni discovered that scabies is caused by the microscopic mite Sarcoptes scabiei."
tagline: "Italian naturalist (1637-1718)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GIACINTO_CESTONI.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1637-05-13"
deathDate: "1718-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.12
  momentum:             1.774193548387097
  historical:           6.538589333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Cestoni"
    title: "Giacinto Cestoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "جياشينتو سيستوني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Cestoni"
    title: "Giacinto Cestoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Cestoni"
    title: "Giacinto Cestoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Cestoni"
    title: "Giacinto Cestoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacinto_Cestoni"
    title: "Diacinto Cestoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinto_Cestoni"
    title: "Giacinto Cestoni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2251697"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump