In 1810-1811 Chladni spent six months at the home of Count Giuseppe Nuvolone Pergamo di Scandaluzza, the deputy president of the Royal Agrarian Society of Turin. The Count was a serious scholar of northern Italian agricultural practice. He is now best known for having published the first ampelography of Italian wine: Sulla coltivazione delle viti et sui metodo migliore di fare e conservare i vini. (Calendario della Società Agrario di Torino, 1798). His other publications include research on the cultivation of hemp (1788), of cotton, the volume in our collection (1808), and an overview of Piedmontese agrcultural practice in French: Sur le progres de l'agriculture et de l'industrie en Piemont (Turin, 1804).