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Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei
1755Feb, 11

Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei

Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist, playwright, and critic (b. 1675)
Francesco Scipione Maffei (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ʃʃiˈpjoːne mafˈfɛi]; 1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was a Venetian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunables of Etruscology, he engaged in running skirmishes in print with his rival in the field of antiquities, Antonio Francesco Gori.

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