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Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist, playwright, and critic (born 1675)

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Francesco Scipione Maffei

Italian writer and art critic (1675 – 1755)

Francesco Scipione Maffei was an 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…
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February 11

Day of the year

February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 323 days remain until the end of the year.
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