Mauro Cristofani (1941 in

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, Italy – 1997) was a

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and researcher in

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studies.

Biography

Cristofani was a student of

Massimo Pallottino Massimo Pallottino (9 November 1909 in Rome – 7 February 1995 in Rome) was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Etruscan civilization and art. Biography Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career on ...

and would himself teach at the

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and, his final post, at the

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. He was a member of the

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and was held in high regard as Pallottino's scholarly heir. During his thirty-year career he dominated the fields of Etruscan archaeology and, especially, epigraphy. He directed the Istituto per l'Archeologia Etrusco-Italica of the

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and was president of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence. His fieldwork included investigations at

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Populonia Populonia or Populonia Alta ( Etruscan: ''Pupluna'', ''Pufluna'' or ''Fufluna'', all pronounced ''Fufluna''; Latin: ''Populonium'', ''Populonia'', or ''Populonii'') today is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Piombino (Tuscany, central Italy). As ...

, and

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. In Italy the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche established the “Centro per l'archeologia etrusco-italica” in 1978, under the direction of

. In 1982, Cristofani (a student of Pallottino) became the director of the Center, which in 1990 became the Institute for Etruscan-Italic Archaeology. In 2001 Cristofani's career was honored by the presentation of 3 volumes that compiled articles he published between 1966 and 1997 under the title ''Scripta Selecta: trenta anni di studi archeologici sull'Italia preromana'', edited by Antonio Giuliano, Salvatore Settis, and Fausto Zevi.

Bibliography

* ''Le tombe da Monte Michele nel Museo archeologico di Firenze''. (Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1969). * ed. ''Atti del Colloquio sul tema Le ricerche epigrafiche e linguistiche sull’etrusco. Problemi, prospettive, programmi. (Firenze, 28-30 settembre 1969)''. (Firenze, L. S. Olschki, 1973). * ''Statue-cinerario chiusine di età classica'' (Rome, 1975). * ed. ''Caratteri dell’ellenismo nelle urne etrusche: atti dell’incontro di studi: Università di Siena, 28-30 aprile 1976'' (Florence, 1977). * ''Materiali per servire alla storia del Vaso François'' (Rome: Istituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, 1981). * ''L’arte degli etruschi: produzione e consumo'' (Turin, 1978). * ''et al.'' ''Gli Etruschi in Maremma: popolamento e attività produttive'' (1981). * ''La scoperta degli etruschi: archeologia e antiquaria nel ’700'' (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1983). * ed. ''Gli Etruschi: una nuova immagine'' (Florence: Giunti Martello, 1984). * ed. ''Dizionario della civiltà etrusca'' (Florence: Giunti Martello, 1985). * ''I bronzi degli Etruschi'' (Novara, 1985). * ed. ''Il Commercio etrusco arcaico: atti dell’incontro di studio, 5-7 dicembre, 1983'' (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1985). * ed. ''Civiltà degli Etruschi'' (Milan: Electa, 1985). * ''Saggi di storia etrusca arcaica'' (Rome: G. Bretschneider, 1987). * ed. ''Etruria e Lazio arcaico : atti dell’incontro di studio, 10-11 novembre 1986'' (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1987). * ''Gli Etruschi del Mare'' (Milan, 1983; 2nd ed. 1989). * ed. ''Caere'' series (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1988-) * ed. ''Miscellanea ceretana'' (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1989). * ''La Grande Roma dei Tarquini : Roma, Palazzo delle esposizioni, 12 giugno-30 settembre 1990 / catalogo della mostra a cura di Mauro Cristofani'' (Rome, 1990). * ''Introduzione allo studio dell'etrusco'' (Florence, 1991). * ''Cerveteri : tre itinerari archeologici'' (Rome, 1991). * ed. ''Lo Scarico arcaico della vigna parrocchiale'' (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 1992-). * ''Miscellanea etrusco-italica'' 3 vol. (Rome, 1993-2003). * ''Tabula Capuana: un calendario festivo di età arcaica'' (Florence, 1995). * ''Etruschi e altre genti nell’Italia preromana: mobilità in età arcaica'' (Rome: G. Bretschneider, 1996). * ''Due testi dell’Italia preromana'' (Rome, 1996). * ''Scripta selecta: trenta anni di studi archeologici sull'Italia preromana'' 3 vol. (Pisa, 2001). * ''Vigna parrocchiale : scavi 1983-1989: il santuario, la "residenza" e l’edificio ellittico''; presentazione di Adriano Maggiani; testi di Vincenzo Bellelli ''et al.'' ''Caere''; 4 (Rome: Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 2003).

References

* Fernando Gilotta. ''Mauro Cristofani: a Very Personal Memory'', In: ''Etruscan Studies'' 6 (1999): 25-8. *

Erika Simon Erika Simon (27 June 1927 – 15 February 2019) was a German scholar of classical archaeology and professor emeritus of the University of Würzburg. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. Simon died in February 2019 at the ...

: ''Ein Leben voller Enthusiasmus für das etruskische Volk'', In: ''Antike Welt'' 28 (1997), p. 549f. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cristofani, Mauro 1941 births 1997 deaths Linguists Italian archaeologists University of Pisa alumni University of Siena alumni University of Pisa faculty 20th-century archaeologists National Research Council (Italy) people