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Vassalli MSS
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Fecha(s)
- 1859-1884 (Creación)
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1 envelope
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Historia biográfica
Italian Egyptologist; he was born in Milan, 8 Jan. 1812, son of Giuseppe V. and Maddalena Brutpacher; he studied painting but was later involved in a political plot, and was condemned to death, although afterwards the sentence was commuted and he was released; he took refuge in Switzerland, France and England where he earned a living by teaching Italian and selling pictures; he went to Egypt about 1841 where he lived as a portrait-painter and dealer; he returned to Milan, 1848, but again went into exile in Egypt in 1849; he travelled to Constantinople and Smyrna, where he married; his wife died a few months later, and he returned to Egypt; as a dealer he had become acquainted with Mariette by 1853 when he sold him the coffin of King Intef; in 1856 he sold some important papyri to the British Museum (EA 100068, 100083, 10403); in 1859 he became assistant to Mariette and conducted many of his excavations; he served in Garibaldi's army, 1860, and was named curator of Egyptian antiquities at the Naples Museum, 1860; he was Keeper of the Bulaq Museum, 1865-83; temporary Director, 18 Jan.-7 Feb. 1881; he retired to Milan in 1883 and then Rome in 1884; he published Opuscules Divers, 2 vols. 1864-7; I Monumenti istorici egizi, it Musueo e gli scavi d'antichita eseguiti per ordine di S. A. Vicere Ismail Pascia; notizia sommaria, 1869; I Musei Egizi d'Italia, 1873; there is a marble bust of him in the Cairo Museum; a collection of his Egyptian antiquities and books was acquired in the 1930s by the American collector Horace L. Mayer, who were donated many to the Boston Museum; his papers are in the Griffith Institute, Oxford, and at Milan; he died in Rome, 13 June 1887.
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Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Photocopies made from photographs lent by Professor Curto in August 1971.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Photocopies of papers kept at Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
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Sistema de arreglo
Arranged/numbered according to Tiradritti's publication. Photocopies not identified added at end and with Griffith Institute's own numbering system.
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Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions. Consultation only.
Condiciones
Copyright Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
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Existencia y localización de originales
These are photocopies from photographs. The originals are at Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
Existencia y localización de copias
Set of photographs in the hands of Professor Curto in 1971.