Giuliano Bonfante
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Giuliano Bonfante was an Italian
Italy
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 linguistics scholar and expert on the language of the Etruscans and other Italic peoples. He was professor of linguistics at the University of Turin
University of Turin
The University of Turin is a university in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy...

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Bonfante was born in Milan
Milan
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. He collaborated with his daughter, Larissa Bonfante
Larissa Bonfante
Larissa Bonfante is an American classicist, Professor of Classics at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture.Born in Naples, 1929, daughter of professor Giuliano Bonfante , Bonfante studied fine arts and classics at Barnard College, gaining her BA in 1954; she gained...

, in his study of the Etruscan language
Etruscan language
The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna...

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He died in Rome.

Necrology

  • http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/necrolog.htm
  • http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/10-Settembre-2005/art84.html
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