Names
Birth
1916
Period of Activity
He was the most outstanding Italian scholar of Ethiopian studies in the second half of the 20th century. He was a pupil of Conti Rossini↗ , who was represented as the last scholar in the tradition of studies founded by Guidi↗ . Ricci graduated from the University of Rome↗ in Humanities in 1938 with a thesis in Ethiopian studies supervised by Conti Rossini↗ . Then, he started his service in Africa Orientale Italiana and worked as an auxiliary officer in the army until 1941. In 1947, he started to work as an assistant Professor in Storia e lingue dʾ Abissinia at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome↗ . He was a lecturer from 1952 to 1962. In 1962 he became full Professor of Amharic at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples↗ and kept the chair till 1986, and as emeritus till 1991. He was the chief editor of Rassegna di Studi Etiopici for a half century, from 1964 to 2003. He was also the eidtor of several Gǝʿǝz texts.
Death
He died at Rome↗ in 2007.
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Names
- Lanfranco Ricci
Dates
Birth: 1916
Period of activity: 1938–2003
Death: 2007
Occupation
scholar
Nationality
Italy
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Yaqob Beyene 2008. ‘In memoriam Lanfranco Ricci (1916–2007)’, Aethiopica, 11 (2008), 217–222 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.11.1.162). page 217-21
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Bausi, A. 2010. ‘Ricci, Lanfranco’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 387a–388b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻLanfranco Ricciʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-04-18) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS8134Ricci [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
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