"Fu giornalista, propagandista, oratore fino a quando lo prese la passione delle cose antiche, dei monumenti, delle ricerche, degli scavi". Il conte Francesco Mancinelli Scotti devastatore d'Etruria?

For many scholars who are interested in the late 19th-early 20th century excavations in South Etruria, Tuscany, Ager Faliscus and Latium Vetus, Francesco Mancinelli Scotti is a well-known key figure of those years. This excavator was often working outside the legal boundaries of archaeology and was therefore named “the eternal wrecker of every archaeological site”. Despite this negative judgment, the interest of this ‘archaeologist’ lies in his frenetic activity on the field which resulted in fundamental discoveries of pre-Roman Italy as well as in the creation of important collections in museums in Italy and abroad. The volume brings together 16 papers on the diverse territories in which Francesco Mancinelli operated and on the Museums to which he sold the findings.