Giorgio Gallesio. The travel journals The Travel Journals¹ Giusi Mainardi recalls² that the identification of Barbesino with the current Grignolino finds confirmation in the travel diaries of Count Giorgio Gallesio, who at the beginning of the nineteenth century noted how this grape variety was still called in the plain of Alessandria and in Quattordio (AL), while in the Monferrato Astigiano, particularly in Portacomaro (AT), it was considered the table wine favored by the wealthy classes. Barbesino In 1839, Count Giorgio Gallesio entrusted to the Academy of Sciences of Turin through a testamentary act an extensive manuscript entitled , with the intent, presumably, of ensuring that the entirety of his cognitive effort and the scientific contribution contained therein be preserved and valued. However, for unknown reasons, part of this diary remained in the private archive of the Gallesio-Piuma Ferrari family of Genoa, while another section ended up in the United States, in the Garden Library of Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C., and is preserved as . Giornale di Agricoltura e di Viaggio Gallesio's Manuscripts ¹. Giorgio Gallesio, , Florence, 1995, Supplement to . Year 1995, Seventh series – Vol. 42/II (182nd from the beginning) I giornali dei viaggi I Georgofili. Atti dell'Accademia dei Georgofili ². Cf. Giusi Mainardi, , in , Castello di Frascati, Sala delle Udienze, September 12, 1993, Frascati, Centro per la promozione degli studi su Giorgio Gallesio, 1995; Carlo Ferraro, , Paper presented at the conference in 2003 Vitigni e vini piemontesi negli scritti di Giorgio Gallesio Omaggio di Frascati a Giorgio Gallesio: atti del Convegno di studi Tassonomia viticola e richiami enologici negli scritti di Giorgio Gallesio Il vino Piemontese da Carlo Alberto a Cavour