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Mauro Cristofani (1941 in
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, Italy – 1997) was a
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and researcher in Etruscan studies.


Biography

Cristofani was a student of Massimo Pallottino and would himself teach at the University of Pisa, University of Siena 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, 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 Massimo Pallottino. 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 honoured 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: ''Ein Leben voller Enthusiasmus für das etruskische Volk'', In: ''Antike Welt'' 28 (1997), p. 549f. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cristofani, Mauro 1941 births 1997 deaths 20th-century Italian linguists University of Pisa alumni University of Siena alumni Academic staff of the University of Pisa 20th-century Italian archaeologists National Research Council (Italy) people