1866 works as assistant in the university of Padua
1867 earns PhD from the university of Padua
1869 appointed professor of natural history at the university of Padua
1879 promoted to professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens
1912 retires
Saccardo's place in history is due mainly to his Sylloge, a list of all the names that had ever been used for fungi, with an entry for each identifying the currently correct name for that fungus. It is still the only work of this type that (a) covers the whole kingdom and (b) is even vaguely modern. Even with the help of Giovanni Battista de Toni, Paul Sydow, Augusto Napoleone Berlese, and his son Daniel Saccardo, it took the last 35 years of his life.
The work was very carefully done: there are about 160,000 pages of entries, and only 120 pages of errata.
The last volume was not published until 1972.
He had to invent a classification system for asexual fungi (the Deuteromycetes) in order to have a way to index them. This wasn't intended as a taxonomic system (see English for some harsh arguments he had with Cooke on this topic), just as an artificial key so that one could locate a name for the specimen at hand.
It was not completely indexed (each volume of the original has its own index) until the 1980s, under a grant from the NSF.
