Orazio Antinori

Afterwards he collaborated with Charles Lucien Bonaparte and illustrated Iconografia della Fauna Italica.

In 1854, he accompanied Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso to Syria, afterwards visiting Asia Minor.

After a long stay in Tunisia, he represented Italy at the inauguration of the Suez Canal.

Antinori took part in the expedition of Odoardo Beccari to Ethiopia and made important collections of natural history specimens.

In 1876 he took part in an expedition with Gustavo Chiarini and Antonio Cecchi to the province of Shewa in Ethiopia where they met with Negus Menelik at Liche, and obtained his permission to found a geographical station at Let Marefia.