{{short description|Italian oenologist}} thumb|230px|Ottavio Ottavi. '''Ottavio Ottavi''' (15 August 1849 – 12 January 1893) was an Italian oenologist.
==Biography== Ottavi was born in Sandigliano. His father Giuseppe Antonio Ottavio was an agronomist,<ref>Félix Sahut, ''Les vignes américaines: leur greffage et leur taille'' (Monpelliers: Camille Coulet; Paris: A Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1887), p. 503.</ref> and his brother Edoardo, editor of the journal ''Il Coltivatore'', was also seen as a significant figure in the development of nineteenth-century Italian viticulture.<ref>Coulet, pp. 509 and 714.</ref>
He was the author of various treatises and monographs, including ''Enologia teorico-pratica'' (1898), and was the founder of the ''Giornale vinicolo italiano''. His ''Inno ai Krumiri'' (1886) is a "hymn" to the krumiro, a type of biscuit created in Casale Monferrato, the town where he largely lived and where he died in 1893.
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==External links== * [http://www.chieracostui.com/costui/docs/search/schedaoltre.asp?ID=6727 Photograph and details] of his commemorative plaque, sculpted by Leonardo Bistolfi, in Casale Monferrato.
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