ROSELLINI, IPPOLITO. - Egyptologist, b. in Pisa on 13 Aug. 1800, d. there on 4 June 1843.

Having earned his degree in theology in his native city (1821), he moved to Bologna, where he devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages under the guidance of G. Mezzofanti. Appointed professor of Oriental literature in Pisa (1826), he met J.-F. Champollion (v.) in 1827 and was drawn to the new science, to which he was to make a notable contribution. In the years 1828-29 he followed Champollion to Egypt as head of the "Tuscan Literary Expedition" promoted by Grand Duke Leopold II. R.'s name is linked to: I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (12 vols., nine of text and three of plates, Pisa 1832-44), an imposing collection of archaeological and epigraphic material that won the unanimous approval of foreign Egyptologists, particularly R. Lepsius and C. Leemans. A practicing Catholic, R. was a friend of the Barnabite L. M. Ungarelli (v.).

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BIBL.: G. Gabrieli, Carteggio inea, di I. P. e di L. M. Ungarelli, in Orientalia, 19 (1926), p. 49 ff.; various authors, Scritti dedicati alla mem. di I. P. nel primo centen. della morte, Florence 1945, passim; G. Botti, I. P., in Studi in mem. di I. P. nel primo centen. della morte, I, Pisa 1949, pp. 1-34 (of the offprint).

Sergio Bosticco

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