Pericle Ducati
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- University of Bologna
- Sapienza University of Rome
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| Born | July 11, 1880 |
| Died | 28 December 1944 (aged 64) |
| Occupations | Classical archaeologist and Etruscologist |
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Pericle Ducati (11 July 1880 – 28 October 1944) was an Italian archaeologist and Etruscologist. He was a professor at the University of Bologna and the author of several studies on the Etruscan civilization.
Pericle Ducati was born in Bologna into a family originally from Trentino. He studied Italian literature at the University of Bologna, where his professors included Giosuè Carducci and Edoardo Brizio.[1] He later studied at the Sapienza University of Rome under Luigi Pigorini and Rodolfo Lanciani.
He then became a professor of classical archaeology at the universities of Catania (1912–1916), Turin (1916–1920) and Bologna (from 1920). From 1921, he directed the Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna.[2] From 1923 to 1924 and again from 1943 to 1944, he was dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bologna.
Ducati was a member of the Superior Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts (Consiglio Superiore per le Antichità e le Belle Arti), as well as a member of numerous Italian and international learned societies, includin the Accademia dei Lincei, the Pontifical Academy of Archaeology, the German Archaeological Institute, and the Accademia di San Luca.[1] A scholar of classical and Etruscan art, he wrote over 3,000 articles and monographs.
Following the Armistice of Cassibile in 1943, Ducati remained loyal to Fascism and joined the Italian Social Republic.[1] This proved to be his downfall. On 24 February 1944, he was attacked on the doorstep of his home by members of the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica who shot him in the back, seriously wounding him.[3] He survived the attack briefly and died of his injuries on 28 October of the same year in a hospital in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
