Larissa Bonfante
Italian-American archaeologist and Etruscologist known especially for work on Etruscan language, costume, and ritual
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Larissa Bonfante's Degrees
- PhD Classical Archaeology Columbia University
- Masters Classical Archaeology Columbia University
- Bachelors Classical Archaeology Barnard College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Larissa Bonfante was an Italian-American classicist, Professor of Classics emerita at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture. Biography Bonfante was born in Naples, the daughter of professor Giuliano Bonfante. She grew up in Princeton, NJ. Bonfante would go on to study fine arts and classics at Barnard College, earning her B.A. in 1954; she completed her M.A. in classics from the University of Cincinnati in 1957 and her Ph.D. in art history and archaeology at Columbia University in 1966. She studied at Columbia with Otto Brendel. Bonfante received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 2007 from the Archaeological Institute of America. She was a founding member of the American section of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. She edited the periodical publication Etruscan News that reported on the activities of the American section. In 2009 Bonfante was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.
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