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Lanfranco Ricci (25 March 1916 - 15 December 2007) was an Italian Ethiopianist.
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Lanfranco Ricci (25 March 1916 - 15 December 2007) was an Italian Ethiopianist.
Born in Belgirate, in 1952 Ricci became professor of Amharic language and literature at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples. [1]
In 1970 Ricci published an Italian translation of the hagiography of the 17th-century female saint Walatta Petros, within the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series. He based his translation on Carlo Conti Rossini's 1912 print edition, which has been criticized for its over-reliance on a single Paris manuscript. [2]
In 1973 Ricci began archaeological research in Aksum, which would continue for two years. [3]
A Festschrift in Ricci's honour was published in 1994. [4] In 1997 he was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. [5]
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