Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (died 1755)

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…