Background
Ippolito Rosellini was born on August 13, 1800 at Pisa, Italy to Giovan Battista Rosellini and M. Angiola Biagetti.
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Egyptian Stories Mini Journal
(Galison's Egyptian Stories notepads are based on drawings...)
Galison's Egyptian Stories notepads are based on drawings published by Ippolito Rosellini, who along with the French Egyptologist Champollion led a scientific expedition to Egypt in 1828. The expedition drawings were published in three folio volumes, I Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, which are in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Monuments of Egypt and Nubia
(Following the Napoleonic military campaign in Egypt (1798...)
Following the Napoleonic military campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), Europe rediscovered the ancient Egyptian civilization, and later expeditions deepened and amplified knowledge of the country's archaeological monuments, giving birth to a new science, Egyptology, which is still very active. In 1828, Charles X of France and Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany financed the first international scientific expedition to Egypt, the aim of which was to explore the historic monuments of the country. Unlike the Napoleonic Commission, the Franco-Tuscan expedition was able to take advantage of the understanding of hieroglyphic script and therefore examine the antiquities more systematically. The leaders of the expedition were Jean-François Champollion, the man who deciphered the hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone, and Ippolito Rosellini. Born in Pisa in 1800, Rosellini was noted for his study of the monuments, deciphering of the hieroglyphs and, above all, for his contribution to science in the form of his illustrated work, The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia. This volume recounts the era of early Egyptology at the start of the nineteenth century, and presents the most beautiful plates from Rosellini's original work made following the long expedition.
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I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (Italian Edition)
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Ippolito Rosellini
Edit ProfileEducation
He studied under Mezzofanti at Bologna, andin 1824 became professor of oriental languages at Pisa University.
Career
In 1827, he went to Paris for a year in order to improve his knowledge of the method of decipherment proposed by Champollion. Rosellini accompanied Champollion in the latter's Egyptian exploration also known as the Franco-Tuscan expedition, as the leader of the Tuscan group (1828-29). The expedition was financed by the Grand-duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, and King Charles X of France.
Champollion's sudden death in 1832 left to the saddened Rosellini the whole responsibility of publishing the report of the expedition: between 1832 and 1843 he exposed the results in his most famous work, I Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, composed of three parts and nine volumes for a total of 3, 300 text pages and 395 illustrated plates.
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Works
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Monuments of Egypt and Nubia
(Following the Napoleonic military campaign in Egypt (1798...)
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Egyptian Stories Mini Journal
(Galison's Egyptian Stories notepads are based on drawings...)
- I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (Italian Edition)
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Monuments of Egypt and Nubia
Connections
He married Zenobia, daughter of the Italian composer Luigi Cherubini.
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Italian