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xliForgery (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Her essays in The New York Review of Books were
collected in From Heaven to Arcadia: The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance (New York Review
Books, 2005). She is a member of the Accademia dei Sepolti (Volterra), the Academia Bibliotecae
Alexandrinae (Egypt), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a fellow of
the Getty Research Institute and John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
Antonio Sanciu was born at Buddusò (province of Sassari-Sardinia). A graduate of the University
of Trieste, since 1979 he has worked as an archaeologist in the Soprintendenza per i Beni
Archeologici of the provinces of Sassari and Nuoro. He has directed numerous campaigns of
archaeological excavation and edited and published various studies on Punic and Roman Sardinia.
Maurizio Sannibale, born in 1961, completed his studies at the Università degli Studi di Roma
“La Sapienza,” where he took a degree in Arts, and then a diploma in the Scuola di Perfezionamento
in Archeologia. He is a corresponding member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi (2010).
Since 1996 he has been Director of the Museo Gregoriano Etrusco of the Musei Vaticani. In
more than 80 published books and articles, he has treated various aspects of artistic and artisanal
production, with particular regard for goldsmithing, bronze-working, sculpture and fi gured
ceramics. His studies have also dealt with conservation and the evidence of ancient techniques of
production. He has recently dedicated several works to iconography, Etruscan religion, and to the
relations between cultures in the area of the ancient Mediterranean.
Giuseppe Sassatelli, Professor of Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the University of Bologna,
has held and still holds many academic and institutional charges, including at national level. He
is a regular member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi e Italici, and a corresponding member of the
German Archaeological Institute. Since 1988 he has directed the Bologna University excavations
of the Etruscan city of Marzabotto, and has collaborated with many museums and agencies in
presenting temporary and permanent exhibitions. His research output has been devoted to: the
reconstruction of the historic dynamics of the Etruscan presence in the Po region, with innovative
studies of the population; urban development of the main cities of the territory; artistic, especially
sculptural production; commercial and cultural exchange; individual mobility between Etruria
padana and neighboring territories; relations among neighboring cultures of northern Italy; the
Etruscan character of the frontiers; the role of the Etruscans in relations between the Mediterranean
and Europe, with particular regard to the Celts. A great part of his scientifi c activity is dedicated
to the theme of the diffusion of writing in the Po region, especially in its initial phases, to the
implications of this phenomenon on the historical, social and cultural plane, to its transmission
by means of the Etruscans to the other populations of northern Italy. Another interest is the
historiography of Etruscan studies and its relation to the “political” history of Italy.
Dr. Margherita Gilda Scarpellini, Mayor of Monte San Savino (prov. Arezzo, 2012) and former
Director of the Museo Civico Archaeologico in Castiglion Fiorentino, specializes in the archaeology
of Arezzo and Castiglion Fiorentino. She is a member of the Accademia Petrarca di Lettere Arte e
Scienze di Arezzo, and is associated with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana.
In addition to research and lectures she has organized a number of exhibits, including “The wild
boar in antiquity” in Castiglion Fiorentino and “Sacra Mirabilia” in Rome. Her publications
include articles on the history of collections, excavations and museum exhibits, and museum
catalogues, for example, “Il sacello tardo etrusco di villa Fatucchi ed appunti sui santuari di Arezzo
etrusca,” in Atti e Memorie Accademia Petrarca Arezzo 59–60 (1997–98 [2000] 29–55; “L’acqua degli
Etruschi. Appunti per alcuni culti idrici della Valdichiana aretina,” in I sentieri dell’acqua: culto,
ruolo e regime delle acque nel Castiglionese (Castiglion Fiorentino 2008) 21–41; Castiglion Fiorentino
Tesori Ritrovati, exhibition catalogue (Montepulciano 2002); Il cinghiale nell’ antichità, archeologia e