Luisa Banti

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Luisa Banti (born July 13, 1894 in Florence , † February 17, 1978 ibid) was an Italian classical archaeologist and Etruscanologist .

Luisa Banti was the oldest child of the pathologist Guido Banti (1852–1925). She studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Florence in the 1920s , where she particularly followed the ancient historian and Etruscanologist Luigi Pareti (1885–1962) and the philologist Giorgio Pasquali (1885–1952). From 1930 to 1940 Banti worked in the Greek manuscript department of the Vatican Library . During the summer months she took part in the Italian excavations in Agia Triada on Crete , where she not only documented her own work, but also evaluated the notes of her predecessors Federico Halbherr , Roberto Paribeni and Enrico Stefani . In the course of this work, Banti dealt with the Minoan culture .

From 1940 Banti was a lecturer in the history of religion at La Sapienza University in Rome . In 1948 she received the chair of Classical Archeology at the University of Pavia . In 1950 she moved to the University of Florence, where she mainly held lectures in the field of Etruscology until her retirement in 1965. During this time she was also a visiting professor in the USA several times .

Fonts (selection)

  • La grande tholos di Haghia Triada . In: Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente . Volume 13-14 (1930-1931), pp. 155-251.
  • Luni . Florence 1937 (extended dissertation).
  • Il Palazzo Minoico di Festos. Scavi e studi della Missione Archeologica Italiana a Creta dal 1900 al 1950. Vol. 2: Il Secondo Palazzo . Rome 1951.
  • Il mondo degli Etruschi . Rome 1960. 2nd edition, Rome 1969.
    • German translation by Paul Zanker : The world of the Etruscans . Stuttgart / Zurich 1960. Reprints Berlin 1962, Essen 1985.
    • English translation by Erika Bizzari: The Etruscan Cities and Their Culture . Berkeley / Los Angeles 1973.

literature

  • Studi in onore di Luisa Banti . Rome 1964 (with list of publications)
  • Giovanni Camporeale: Luisa Banti 1894–1978 . In: Studi Etruschi . Volume 47 (1979), pp. IX-XV ( PDF )
  • Francesca R. Serra Ridgway : Luisa Banti . In: Nancy Thomson de Grummond (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archeology . Westport (CT) 1996, Vol. 1, p. 116
  • Luigi Rocchetti:  Banti, Luisa. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 34:  Primo supplemento AC. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1988.

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personal data
SURNAME Banti, Luisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian archaeologist and etrusologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1978
Place of death Florence