BIANCHI BANDINELLI, RANUCCIO

(1900–1975)

   A highly influential, international classical scholar who had a profound influence on the development of Etruscan studies, promoting two principal directions: topography (through his work at Chiusi, based on his 1925 monograph) and art history (including his creation of the Enciplopedia d’arte. He was a professor, founder of the journal Dialoghi di Archeologia, prominent in the Accademia dei Lincei, and on the central committee of the Italian Communist Party. His intellectual biography—Dal Diario di un borghese—gives considerable insight into the formative elements of his career.