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===Years of entomology===
Although little of his entomological work was published by Róndani himself, it raised him to preeminence. In 1840, he became a member of the [[Academy of France]], published his first paper, and corresponded with [[Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville]] on insects of [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[amber]]. Further publications rapidly followed on species new to Italy, new to science, plans of classifications, taxonomic arguments, and initial work on the his masterwork, the Prodomo, a treatise on [[Diptera]]. Many were (confusingly) printed locally at the printing office in Parma, but then, following amendments in the entomological journals ''Nuovi Annali di Scienze Naturali di Bologna'', ''Magazin de Zoologie de M. J. Guérin Ménéville'', and the ''[[Annales de la Société Entomologique de France]]''.
In the nationalistic wars of 1848 the Róndani's were recalled to Parma. Camillo was briefly elected to represent Traversetolo. Following the catastrophic defeat of the Piedmontese at the [[Battle of Novara]], Róndani retired back to Guardasone, and for some years, as Italians became increasingly involved in colonial ambition, worked on exotic Diptera. In these years he began to collaborate with the [[Irish people|Irish]] entomologist [[Alexander Henry Haliday]] with whom he was to co-found the Italian Entomological Society.
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