 In 1870, he was made a member of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze.Bartolomeo Gastaldi died in Turin in 1879.The mineral gastaldite, a type of glaucophane, is named after him; so too are the Rifugio Bartolomeo Gastaldi (a mountain hut in the Graian Alps), the mountain called Cresta Gastaldi in the Gran Paradiso group, and the Punta Gastaldi, a peak near Monviso.