Lanfranco Ricci

Lanfranco Ricci (25 March 1916 - 15 December 2007) was an Italian Ethiopianist.

Life

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]

Works
  • 'Ethiopian Christian Literature', in Aziz S. Atiya, ed., The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. 3. New York, 1991, pp. 975-79.

References
  1. Ricci, Lanfranco, Treccani.
  2. Wendy Laura Belcher (2015). "Manuscripts of the Text and Earlier Translations". In Wendy Laura Belcher; Michael Kleiner (eds.). The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman. Princeton University Press. p. 49. ISBN 9780691164212.
  3. Maria Pia Guermandi (2012). "Italian archaeology in Africa: the arduous liberation of a discipline from colonial ideology". In S. J. van der Linde (ed.). European Archaeology Abroad: Global Settings, Comparative Perspectives. Sidestone Press. p. 318. ISBN 9789088901065.
  4. Yacob Beyene; Rodolfo Fattovich; Paolo Marrassini; Alessandro Triulzi, eds. (1994). Etiopia e oltre: studi in onore di Lanfranco Ricci. Naples.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. "Professor Lanfranco Ricci FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
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