Mario Torelli

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Mario Torelli (born  May 12, 1937 in Rome ) is an Italian archaeologist and etrusologist . He was most recently Professor of Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Perugia and has been in retirement since 2010.

life and work

Torelli graduated from the University of La Sapienza in Rome in 1960 with a degree in Classical Literature with summa cum laude and wrote a thesis entitled Falerii Veteres on ancient Falerii . From 1960 to 1962 he was assistant to the Center for Antiquities and Art History of the Middle East (Centro per le Antichità e la Storia dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente) under the direction of Massimo Pallottino and Sabatino Moscati . From 1964 to 1969 he was archaeological inspector at the superintendent for antiquities of southern Etruria ( Soprintendenza alle Antichità dell'Etruria Meridionale). During this time he was u. a. responsible for the museum of Villa Giulia in Rome and the excavations in Veii and Gravisca .

In 1969 Torelli received a chair in archeology and history of Greek and Roman art at the University of Cagliari , which he held until 1973. Until 1975 he taught in Cagliari as an associate professor . In 1975 he moved to the University of Perugia, where he also taught as an associate professor. In 1976 he received a professorship in Perugia, where he taught until 2010 as a full professor of archeology and the history of Greek and Roman art. In addition, he received teaching positions for the archeology of Magna Graecia (1995-2000) and for Etruscan and Italian archeology (2000-2010).

Torelli was involved in excavations in the villa of Nero of Subiaco (1957), in the Roman city of Trebula Mutuesca near Monteleone Sabino (1958-1959), in the Nubian cities of Sabagura and Ikhmindi (1960) and in the necropolis of Veii (1961) . He led the excavations of the Etruscan Menrva sanctuary of Punta della Vipera near Santa Marinella (1964–1966), the Etruscan sanctuary of Porta Caere in Veii (1966–1969), the Greek sanctuary of Gravisca, the old port of Tarquinia (1969–1969) 1979), the Venus sanctuary at Paestum (1982–1985), the Demeter sanctuary (1985–1986) and the Agora of Herakleia (1987–1991). Between 1990 and 1991, Torelli spent an academic year as a guest at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica .

From 1976 to 1987 Torelli was director of the Institute of Archeology (Istituto di Archeologia) of the University of Perugia and from 1994 to 1997 of the Institute for Comparative Studies on Ancient Societies (Istituto di Studi Comparati sulle Società Antiche) and since 1999 coordinator of the Comparative Studies Section on ancient societies of the Department of Historical-Artistic Studies (Studi Comparati sulle Società Antiche del Dipartimento di Studi Storico-Artistici) . From 2001 he coordinated the Center of Excellence for the Diagnostics of Cultural Heritage (Centro di Eccellenza per la Diagnostica dei Beni Culturali) established by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research at the University of Perugia. Torelli participated in numerous archaeological exhibitions in Italy and abroad. On the occasion of the Italian "Year of the Etruscans" (Anno degli Etruschi) , he coordinated the nine associated exhibitions in Tuscany in 1985 . In 2000 he designed the exhibition "The Etruscans" (Gli Etruschi) in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, which took place between November 2000 and July 2001. In 2006 he curated the exhibition “ The Iliad ” (L'Iliade) at the Colosseum in Rome .

Torelli wrote numerous articles for the daily and magazine press. From 1981 to 1988 he worked regularly as a writer for the daily newspaper Il Messaggero in Rome. Since 1992 he has been editor of the scientific journal Ostraka . Between 2000 and 2001 he worked as a writer for the daily La Stampa in Turin . Torelli has given lectures at universities and research institutes in Italy, France, England, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Romania, the United States, Canada and Australia and has been used for congresses, study conferences and international seminars in Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria and the former Czechoslovakia were invited. In 2014 Torelli received the Balzan Prize of the International Balzan Foundation, which has been awarded to outstanding scientists and personalities from the world of art and culture since 1961.

Visiting professorships and lectureships

Memberships

Honorary doctorates

Publications (selection)

  • with E. Bresciani, S. Donadoni, AM Roveri and A. Stenico (eds.): Sabagūra. 1960. Centro per le Antichità e la dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, Rome 1962.
  • Il santuario di Hera a Gravisca. In: La Parola del Passato . 26, 1971, pp. 44-67.
  • Elogia tarquiniensia. Sansoni, Florence 1975.
  • Gravisca or Graviscae, Latium, Italy. In: Richard Stillwell et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
  • Etruria. Editori Laterza, Rome 1980.
  • Necropoli dell'Italia antica. Touring Club Italiano 1982.
  • with Emanuele Greco: Storia dell'urbanistica: Il mondo Greco. Editori Laterza, Rome 1983, ISBN 88-420-2290-X .
  • Storia degli etruschi. 11th edition. Edizioni Club degli Editori 2005 1984, ISBN 88-420-5222-1 .
  • Lavinio e Roma: riti iniziatici e matrimonio tra storia e archeologia. Quasar, Rome 1984, ISBN 88-85020-55-0 .
  • L'arte degli etruschi. 5th edition. Editori Laterza, Rome 1998 1985, ISBN 88-420-5519-0 .
  • La Società etrusca: l'eta arcaica e l'età Classica. Carocci, Rome 1987, ISBN 88-430-0974-5 .
  • with Pierre Gros: Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo romano. 3. Edition. Editori Laterza, Rome 2007 1988, ISBN 88-420-8044-6 .
  • with Alessandra Uncini: Museo del vino di Torgiano. Materiali archeologici. Electa Editori Umbri Associati, Perugia 1991, ISBN 88-435-3624-9 .
  • Atlante dei siti archeologici della Toscana. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Florence 1992, ISBN 88-7062-785-3 .
  • Diribitorium. In: Eva Margareta Steinby (Ed.): Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae . Volume 2, Quasar, Rome 1995, pp. 17-18.
  • Il rango, il rito e l'immagine: all origini della rappresentazione storica romana. Mondadori Electa, Milan 1997, ISBN 88-435-5882-X .
  • Gli Etruschi. Bompiani, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-452-4564-0 .
  • Arte etrusca. Giunti Editore, Florence 2001, ISBN 88-09-02053-7 .
  • with Vincenzo Scarano Ussani: La Tabula Cortonensis. Un documento giuridico, storico e sociale. Loffredo, Naples 2003, ISBN 88-8096-955-2 .
  • with Maria Grazia Marchetti Lungarotti: Vino: tra mito e cultura. Skira, Milan 2006, ISBN 88-8491-886-3 .
  • Le strategie di Kleitias. Composizione e programma figurativo del vaso François. Mondadori Electa, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-370-5423-6 .
  • Dei e artigiani. Archeologia delle colonie greche d'Occidente. Editori Laterza, Rome 2011, ISBN 978-88-420-9510-1 .
  • La forza della tradizione. Etruria e Roma: continuità e discontinuità agli albori della storia. Longanesi, Milan 2011, ISBN 978-88-304-2734-1 .
  • Significare. Scritti Vari di Ermeneutica Archeologica. Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa / Rome 2012, ISBN 978-88-6227-407-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Torelli, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome