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June 1, 1675
Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (died 1755)
Francesco Scipione Maffei
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 the field of antiquities, Antonio Francesco Gori.