About the Author

DANIELE VITALI was born in Bologna in 1948. He graduated in Etruscology at the University of Bologna in 1972 and earned his advanced degree in 1984. Since 1998 he has been a professor of Pre- and Protohistory in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna. He is member of UMR 8546 CNRS (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris), a corresponding member of the Institute of Etruscan and Italic Studies and of the Institute of Italian Pre- and Protohistory, and directs the L. Fantini Archaeological Museum of Monterenzio.