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xxxiiSociété des Etudes Latines, and the American Philosophical Society. Her books Etruscan Life and
Afterlife (ed.), The Etruscan Language: An Introduction (with Giuliano Bonfante), and Etruscan Dress
have seen multiple editions in the US and abroad.
Dominique Briquel, born in Nancy (France) in 1946, studied classical philology at the École
Normale Supérieure and at the Sorbonne University (Paris), where he attended the lessons of
Jacques Heurgon, Raymond Bloch and Michel Lejeune, before spending three years (1971–1974)
at the French School of Rome, Palazzo Farnese. He taught Latin at the École Normale Supérieure in
Paris, before becoming a professor at the University of Dijon. Since 1997, he has been Professor in
Classical Philology at the Sorbonne, and at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, where he
teaches a seminar in Etruscology. His own research deals especially with the testimonies of ancient
authors, Greek and Latin, on the Etruscans (and their ideas about Etruscan origins), Etruscan
inscriptions (with the publication of Etruscan documents in French collections) and Etruscan
religion (especially in its use by the “last pagans: against the rise of Christian religion). His recent
books include L’origine lydienne des Étrusques, histoire du thème dans la littérature antique (1991), Les
Tyrrhènes, peuple des tours, l’autochtonie des Étrusques chez Denys d’Halicarnasse (1993), La civilisation
étrusque (1999), Chrétiens et haruspices: la religion étrusque, dernier rempart du paganisme romain, (1997),
and La prise de Rome par les Gaulois (2008).
Stefano Bruni was born in Florence in 1960. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree at the
Università degli Studi of Florence, was awarded the Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation grant;
subsequently he became an archaeologist in the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali,
serving in the Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici della Toscana. After earning the degree of
Dottore di ricerca in archeology (Greek, Roman and medieval: settlements, economy and culture),
since 2000 he has been Professor of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities in the Faculty of Arts and
Philosophy of the Università degli Studi di Ferrara. He has participated in numerous excavation
campaigns in Etruria, in the center of Pisa and the territory of the lower Valdarno, as well as the
Valdera district and the Colline Pisane Inferiori. He is responsible for more than 200 publications,
including monographs, articles and reviews, which have been published in major Italian and
international journals. His scientifi c research is concerned with problems of the Etruscan and pre-
Roman Italic world, and ranges over a wide area of interests: pottery and numismatics, historical
topography, bronze-working, terracotta sculpture and religion, iconography and problems of trade
and commerce, funerary ideology and sculpture. An important area of his scientifi c activity is
devoted to historiography and antiquarian studies, from a primarily historical viewpoint.
Giovannangelo Camporeale graduated from the University of Florence in 1956. He has held
numerous academic posts, beginning as a professor in Etruscology and Italic Archaeology at the
University of Florence in 1962. He has been a visiting professor at the British Academy (London),
the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlin), and since
1995 he has been the Course Coordinator in Etruscology and Italic Antiquities of the Università
Italiana per Stranieri of Perugia. He has also been President of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed
Italici since 1995, and Lucumo of the Accademia Etrusca of Cortona since 2008. He was President
of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC), and coordinator of several international
exhibitions, including “Prima Italia,” “Etruria Mineraria” and “The Etruscans and Europe.” He
directed the archaeological excavations of Massa Marittima (and thus Lago dell’Accesa) for many
years, and is a member of numerous Italian and international professional groups, including the
Scientifi c Council of the Istituto per l’Archeologia Etrusco-Italica of the Consiglio Nazionale della
Ricerca (CNR) and the Foundation for the Museum “C. Faina” of Orvieto. Among his books are La
caccia in Etruria (The Hunt in Etruria, 1984), La tomba del Duce (1967), I commerci di Vetulonia in età
orientalizzante (1969), and works on the Alla Querce and C. A. Collections, on Orvietan bucchero
and craftsmanship, and on the site of Lago dell’Accesa. His most recent work, Gli Etruschi. Storia