A week ago, died Tiziano Mannoni, Genoa, one of the greatest Italian archaeologists. I knew him for over half a century, since his lanky figure appeared high and the Institute of Ligurian Studies to ask refer to magazines. He was just the beginning of a journey that led him to create a new kind of researcher, the archaeologist of scientific training. Until then, archeology was an area reserved for humanists, people who knew Latin and greek, studied art history and ancient, in a suit and tie, ran the pick of the workers on the ancient ruins. Mannoni with everything changed, the archaeologist began the suit and took up the trowel, he forgot "pink rosae" if he had never studied it is entrusted to the microscope, count the circles in tree trunks, chemical examination of calcination , the classification of the shapes of the bricks. Friends have always contended smile: I Squaderno him under the nose of the results, I would say that the antiquity is a beautiful woman to love, not to be to autopsy. He won because he was in line with the times, they see Giulio Cesare in decline compared to snippets of stories of common people of the Middle Ages. Now I fear that his friend Titian find uncomfortable in Paradise. Everything there is a cloud, there is no land to dig.
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