Book  (2000)  Page(s) 180.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Cosimo Ridolfi’ = Gallique… feuillage soyeux, vert intense ombré d’argent, sur un bois gris-vert presque sans épines… boutons ronds et durs… fleurs de taille moyenne, en coupe plate débordant de pétales, à la symétrie parfaite autour d’un œil brodé, d’un rose cerise violacé paraissant presque bleu par temps chaud. Ce rosier gallique au parfum capiteux est hélas rare. Il porte le nom d’un agronome italien du XIXème siècle. Vibert, France, 1842.

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Cosimo Ridolfi Gallica. Vibert 1842. The author cites information from different sources... lilac rose, spotted... purplish crimson, spotted...

Book  (Mar 1999)  Page(s) 49.  Includes photo(s).
 
Cosimo Ridolfi ('Casimo Ridolphi') Gallica. Vibert, France, 1842... Handsome, mid-sized, cupped, dusky lilac-rose blossoms, mottled and veined with crimson...

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 207-209.  Includes photo(s).
 
Cosimo Ridolfi Gallica. Vibert, 1842... blooms singly or in clusters of 2 to 3... Vibert listed it in his catalog of 1845 and dedicated this rose to a Florentine marquis named Cosimo Ridolfi (1794-1865) who was, at that time, well-known in Europe for his efforts towards the development of agricultural science...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 141.  
 
Vibert (France) 1842. Description and vital statistics. Shapely cupped flowers of smoky bluish lilac, opening fully double and flat... A little-known but delightful Gallica.

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 7.  
 
Included in the collection at Sangerhausen

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 31.  
 
('Cosimo Ridolphi') Description... a true Gallica with neat soft green leaves and upstanding flowers... little circular, cupped flowers of a sombre old rose, rapidly becoming flushed with parma violet, showing cerise veins and a button eye. One of the most exquisitely fashioned of the Old Roses...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 113.  
 
Cosimo Ridolfi Gallica, old-rose to lilac, spotted crimson, 1842, Vibert. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Cosimo Ridolfi ('Cosimo Ridolphi') Gallica. Parentage: unknown. France 1842. Description and cultivation... The fragrant lilac flowers are cupped at first and later become open and flat...

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 50-51.  Includes photo(s).
 
Well-scented, fading to violet