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xxxEtruria on the Tiber (Il territorio di Bomarzo, Rome, 1976) and the adjacent Faliscan territory, with
special regard for the cultural character and chronological defi nition of the oldest phases (eighth–
seventh centuries bc) of that culture. In collaboration with M. A. De Lucia Brolli (q.v.) she continues
the reconstruction of nineteenth-century excavations in the region of Narce (showcased in the
exhibition “Scavo nello Scavo,” Viterbo, 2004, curated by A. M. Sgubini Moretti). She recently
took over direction of the Pyrgi excavations on the retirement of Giovanni Colonna, and continues
the excavation and publication of the new southern sanctuary; the excavations and the new Museo
Archeologico Nazionale in Castello di S. Severa at Pyrgi offer a unique opportunity for students
and scholars. Her own research at Pyrgi includes the analysis of offerings and rituals found in the
southern shrine, and the Attic vases excavated there. In 2001 she curated the exhibition of a group
of terracotta votive statues from the Veii Portonaccio sanctuary for the exhibition “Veio, Cerveteri,
Vulci. Città a confronto” sponsored by the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l’Etruria Meridionale;
and she also coordinated the study and display of materials acquired by the Antiquarium of the
Villa Giulia from the Museo Kircheriano. She has presented her research at various international
conferences (Convegni di Studi Etruschi, Regensburg, Copenhagen, Philadelphia) and continues
(with Professor F. Gilotta) the study of Praenestine mirrors from the Barberini Collection in the
Villa Giulia.
Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni is a Classics graduate and has a PhD in Archaeology; she is Associate
Professor of Etruscan Studies at the Università degli Studi di Milano (since 2005), and director
of the archaeological excavations at Tarquinia conducted by the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Her research spans from the archaeological reports regarding Tarquinia to the conditions of
cultural transmission among cultures in the ancient world, in particular between Etruscans and
Greeks, through to the analysis and interpretation of the archaeological and epigraphic data. A
member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, she is co-director (with Maria Bonghi Jovino)
of the series Tarchna, (with Federica Cordano) of Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, and
(with Nancy de Grummond, q.v.) of the International Etruscan Sigla Project. She has published
extensively on Etruscan archaeology and epigraphy, the site and art of Tarquinia and related issues,
and participated in international conferences. She edited and contributed to Bridging Archaeological
and Information Technology Culture for community accessibility (Milan, July 10–11, 2007; Rome 2008),
and with Maria Bonghi Jovino has published a book on the Ara della Regina (Tarquinia) temples.
She has assisted with several major exhibitions, including Gli Etruschi di Tarquinia (Milan 1986);
Acque profonde (Tarquinia 1998); Oltre le Colonne d’Ercole (Milano 1999); Tarquinia. Una nuova storia
(Tarquinia 2001).
Gilda Bartoloni graduated in 1967 in Etruscology, having studied with Massimo Pallottino at
Rome. Since 1976 she has been Professor of Etruscology at the Universities of Lecce, Siena and
Paris IV Sorbonne, and a visiting professor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Vienna. In
2001 she became full professor at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Her scientifi c interests
regard especially Etruscan and Latial Protohistory, and she has published handbooks on the
Villanovan and Etruscan cultures and mortuary archaeology, as well as over 100 works on the
relations between the Italic peoples and other Mediterranean cultures. She curated the exhibition
on Etruscan Princes Between Mediterranean and Europe, held at Bologna in 2000. She has participated
in and directed many archaeological excavations in Etruria and Latium, most recently, the Veii
project of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (the settlement of Piazza d’Armi) and the
Villanovan necropolis of Poggio delle Granate at Populonia; in 2003 she began research at Poggio
del Telegrafo (Populonia). In collaboration with the Soprintendenza of Toscana she is responsible
for the excavation of the Campassini site (Monteriggioni), of the handicraft area of Quartaia (Colle
Val d’Elsa) and of the Pugiano sanctuary (San Gimignano). She is an ordinary member and auditor
of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, and has been director of the newly reinstalled Etruscan
and Italic Antiquities Museum of the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”