Named in memory of Giuseppe Battaglini (1826–1894), Italian mathematician. University professor of superior geometry at Naples and Rome, he was founder of the Giornale di Matematiche ad uso degli studenti delle Università Italiane. He introduced Italy to the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevskij {see planet  (1858)}, and his translations of some of Todhunter’s texts were used for many years by Italian university students. (M 33790) _ _.