xxixCONTRIBUTORS
Luciano Agostiniani was born in Pistoia in 1939, and received an MA degree at the University
of Florence in 1972. From 1987 to 2009 he was Professor of General Linguistics and Comparative
Philology in the University of Perugia, Faculty of Arts. He is a member of the Società Italiana
di Glottologia, Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana, Società di Linguistica
Italiana, a member of the board of directors of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi e
Italici, and a correspondent member of the Accademia della Crusca. His main areas of research
are: languages of ancient Italy, dialectology and sociolinguistics (in particular spoken Italian),
semantics (also in connection with formulaicity and idiomaticity), linguistic historiography. On
the ancient linguistics side, he is interested mainly in Etruscan and ancient Italic languages (his
publications include books, Iscrizioni anelleniche di Sicilia, I: Le iscrizioni elime, Florence 1977; Le
“iscrizioni parlanti” dell’Italia antica, Florence 1982; Tabula Cortonensis, Rome 2000; and various
congress communications and articles in periodicals and miscellanies). One of his specifi c fi elds of
interest is the structure and typological classifi cation of Etruscan.
Laura Ambrosini is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Italic and Ancient Mediterranean
Civilizations of the National Research Council and Professor of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities
at the University of Foggia. She obtained a postgraduate diploma with honors in Classical
Archaeology as well as her PhD in Archaeology (Etruscology) with honors from the Department of
Etruscology and Italic Antiquities of the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” under the supervision
of Professor Giovanni Colonna. She has participated in the excavation of the Etruscan city of Veii
and the sanctuary of Pyrgi and in the reinstallations of the National Museums of Villa Giulia and
Cerveteri. Her book on Veii won the prize “Promotion Research 2004” and in 2005 she won a
National Research Council Prize in the area of Sciences of Antiquity. Her research has focused
primarily on ancient sites of Etruria (Veii, Norchia), on the Ager Faliscus (Corchiano, Falerii Veteres,
Narce), on craft (pottery, mirrors, thymiateria, gems), the Etruscan language and Archaeometric
studies on pottery and metals. For these studies she has developed many partnerships with foreign
museums and institutions (École Française de Rome; CNRS, France; the British Museum, London;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Musée d’Aléria Corsica, among others). She is the author
of fi ve scientifi c books and over 90 scientifi c articles and book chapters.
Maria Paola Baglione, a student of Massimo Pallottino, graduated in 1971 from the University of
Rome “La Sapienza,” where, since 2000, she has been an associate professor. Her interests include