Francesco Negri (18 December 1841 – 21 December 1924) was an Italian photographer known not only as a pictorialist but for his innovative work in photomicroscopy, in the development of the telephoto lens, and for his early experiments in Louis Ducos du Hauron’s techniques of colour photography.
His scientific and cultural pursuits included botany and local history: in both fields, his publications remain significant.
The following year he moved to Casale Monferrato where he married Giulia Ravizza and pursued a career in a civil law.
Cavaliere Negri, at Casale-Monferrato, told me not long since that when he was a child, during the troubles of 1848 and 1849, the King was lunching with his (Cav.
The King said: “I can eat no such luncheon in times like these - give me some garlic.” The garlic being brought, he ate it along with a great hunch of bread, but would touch nothing else.