The paper focuses on Ippolito Rosellini, co-director with J.F. Champollion of the Franco-Tuscan Expedition to Egypt (1828-29) and first Professor of Egyptology in Europe, at the University of Pisa. His important contribution to the formative phase of the new-born Egyptology is highlighted through the study of his unpublished manuscripts and some drawings of the Expedition in the Biblioteca Universitaria of Pisa. These documents were studied, digitized and put on the web in the framework of a specific project, directed by the author, “Progetto Rosellini”. The volume including this paper, it too edited by M. Betrò, is the catalogue of the homonymous exhibition organized by the author in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo in 2010. The international exhibition exposed for the first time in Egypt about one hundred drawings and manuscripts among the most important and beautiful from Ippolito Rosellini and the Tuscan Expedition Archive.
Ippolito Rosellini, l'Egitto, l'Egittologia /Ippolito Rosellini, Egypt and Egyptology
BETRO', MARIA CARMELA
2010-01-01
Abstract
The paper focuses on Ippolito Rosellini, co-director with J.F. Champollion of the Franco-Tuscan Expedition to Egypt (1828-29) and first Professor of Egyptology in Europe, at the University of Pisa. His important contribution to the formative phase of the new-born Egyptology is highlighted through the study of his unpublished manuscripts and some drawings of the Expedition in the Biblioteca Universitaria of Pisa. These documents were studied, digitized and put on the web in the framework of a specific project, directed by the author, “Progetto Rosellini”. The volume including this paper, it too edited by M. Betrò, is the catalogue of the homonymous exhibition organized by the author in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo in 2010. The international exhibition exposed for the first time in Egypt about one hundred drawings and manuscripts among the most important and beautiful from Ippolito Rosellini and the Tuscan Expedition Archive.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
