Matteo Tondi

In the next few years, Tondi conducted experiments and claimed that he had discovered three new elements that he named as parthenium, austrum, and borbonium.

His claims were supported by his supervisor Antal Leopold Ruprecht (1748-1814), chemist at the Bergakademie and by Ignaz von Born (1742-1791).

Tondi claimed that these views were because of political differences, ones that had already arisen during the Europe trip where Savaresi was given special treatment.

In 1794 he travelled around Europe along with Carminantonio Lippi making collections of minerals and returned to Naples in 1796 with a manuscript with the aim of producing an encyclopedia.

He then received support as an assistant to the mineralogist Déodat de Dolomieu (1750-1801) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

He also gave private courses in mineralogy and his students included Count Giuseppe Marzari Pencati (1779-1836) from Vicenza.