 Camillo Acqua was Directeur de l’Instituto Bacologico (Institut for sericulture) at Portici (near Naples) then at Stazione Sperimentale di Gelsicoltura e Bachicoltura ( An Experimental station for the culture of the mulberry and silkworm breeding) at Ascoli Piceno.He wrote much on the subject of sericulture.His best known work is "Il bombice del Gelso