Carlo Conti Rossini (1872–1949) was an Italian orientalist. He was director of the State Treasury from 1917 to 1925, a member of the

Accademia dei Lincei The (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy. Founded in ...

in 1921 and

Royal Academy of Italy The Royal Academy of Italy () was a short-lived Italian academy of the Italian Fascism, Fascist period. It was created on 7 January 1926 by royal decree,See reference . but was not inaugurated until 28 October 1929. It was effectively dissolved in ...

from 1939. He wrote various works on the historical geography of

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, of which the most famous is ''Italia ed Etiopia dal trattato di Uccialli alla battaglia d'Adua'' (''Italy and Ethiopia from the Treaty of Uccialli to the Battle of Adwa'', 1935). He also wrote articles on phonetic Ethiopian (

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, 1940). His library is preserved in Rome.

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CONTI ROSSINI, Carlo
in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 28 (1983)
Scheda biografica cartografi – DISCI
Università di Bergamo. 1872 births 1949 deaths Ge'ez language Ethiopianists Italian orientalists Members of the Royal Academy of Italy People from Salerno {{africanist-stub