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Napoleone Pini (1835, Milan - 22 March 1907, Milan) was an Italian zoologist and palaeontologist.
Pini was born into an aristocratic family. He was an accountant. In 1872 he became a member of the Società Entomologica Italiana. In 1873 he was appointed member of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali di Milano. In this Society he was Secretary since 1878. He was also a member of the Società Malacologica Italiana (1875-1895).
The terrestrial molluscs were always his main interest. He specially studied the slugs of Lombardy. He wrote 17 works of malacology, in addition to a report on the Phylloxera, the description of Cychrus cylindricollis, Acme elegantissima and the collection of specimen for anatomical studies on Limax doriae.
Pini's mollusc collections were destroyed when Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano was damaged in 1943 by Allied bombings. His Coleoptera collections are held by Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, while a collection of 100 series of molluscs from southern Italy is held by Natural History Museum of Bern.