Scholar
Sebastiano Soldi
fl. 2025
Scholar, active in 2025. Worked with Silvana Di Paolo; wrote with Elena Sorge.
Life and work
- 2025Published chapter 5 of Empire & Excavation (Kiely, Reeve and Crewe eds): on the Cypriot antiquities supplied to the Florence museum's Director L. A. Milani by the entomologist G. Cecconi (expedition 1898-1899) and, through Cecconi, by the Larnaca collector-dealer Michael Caremfilaki (or Karemphylakis). He used the museum's historical archive (Florence) and the archive of the Italian Geographic Society (Rome).
FlorenceSoldi 2025, p. 7, p. 21
- from 2025Cites two forthcoming works on Cecconi in Di Paolo and Iozzo (eds), Cypriot antiquities in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence (Rome: Quasar): his own 'Giacomo Cecconi: The scientific expedition to Cyprus through the documents of the Archive of the Italian Geographic Society', and with E. Sorge 'Giacomo Cecconi: The Entomological Expedition to Cyprus and its role in the acquisition of Cypriot antiquities'.
- 2025Acknowledges that his study of the Cypriot collection was encouraged by Mario Iozzo (former Director of the Florence museum), coordinated by Iozzo and Silvana Di Paolo (CNR-ISPC, Rome), and originally promoted by Fulvia Lo Schiavo (formerly Superintendent Archaeologist of Tuscany); thanks Elena Sorge (Superintendency of Pisa and Livorno), the SGI archive and library staff, and the museum's historical-archive and photographic-archive staff.
FlorenceSoldi 2025, p. 21
Connections
7 peopleScholarship
- Wrote with Elena Sorge2025
- Published material of Giacomo Cecconi2025
- Published material of Luigi Adriano Milani2025
- Published material of Michael Caremfilaki2025
- Published material of Riccardo Colucci2025
Colleagues & contacts
- Connected with Luigi Adriano Milani2025
- Connected with Mario Iozzo2025
- Worked with Silvana Di Paolo2025
Sources
- 1.Sebastiano Soldi (2025). “The Italian entomologist Giacomo Cecconi and Cyprus: a step towards the formation of the Cypriot collection in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 93-.
- 2.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.