Francesco Scipione
Italian writer
Died when: 79 years 255 days (956 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Francesco Scipione Maffei (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ʃʃiˈpjoːne mafˈfɛi]; 1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was a Italian 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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