Maria Teresa Manni Piraino
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Maria Teresa Manni Piraino (also known as Maria Teresa Piraino Manni)[1] was an Italian classical scholar and epigrapher. She worked extensively on the Greek inscriptions of ancient Sicily, with a particular interest in the archaic period. Her methodology was characterized by a careful attention towards integrating the archeological context and material features of each inscription with its linguistic ones.[2]
In 1973, she published the Iscrizioni greche lapidarie di Museo di Palermo, the leading catalogue for Greek inscriptions in Western Sicily, noted for its Selinuntine material and "virtually complete illustration".[3]
Lazzarini attributes to her work a persistent interest in indigenous Sicilian epigraphy at the University of Palermo.[2]
She was active between 1952 and 1987, and was married to Eugenio Manni.[1]
