"Amalia Sola Nizzoli and the Charm of Egypt" (La Nazione, Florence, 2015)
Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo
Irene Guidotti
10.26180/5e16ab4c8d254
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/report/_Amalia_Sola_Nizzoli_and_the_Charm_of_Egypt_La_Nazione_Florence_2015_/11556348
<p>Title: "Amalia Nizzoli e il fascino dell'Egitto"</p><p><i>Media coverage</i></p><p><br></p><p>Newspaper article featuring the Nizzoli Project outcomes: an international research project carried out since 2008 by Carlo Rindi
Nuzzolo (Monash University, Melbourne) and Irene Guidotti (Monash
University Library) discovered the long-lost tomb of the writer and
archaeologist ante litteram Amalia Sola Nizzoli. <br> <br>The latter,
wife of Chancellor and merchant of Egyptian antiquities Giuseppe
Nizzoli, is particularly renowned for her work "Memorie sull'Egitto e
specialmente sui costumi delle donne orientali" published in 1841.
During her long stay in Egypt she also directed an excavation at Saqqara
on behalf of her husband. In fact, Giuseppe Nizzoli has been
responsible for the sale of rich collections of Egyptian antiquities
which formed the nucleus of major archaeological museums in Italy and
abroad: amongst them the Egyptian Museum of Florence, the Civic
Archaeological Museum of Bologna and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in
Vienna.<br> <br>It was unclear what happened to Amalia Nizzoli after the
publication of her book and both the cause and place of her death were
still unknown. <br>The authors, after an investigation carried out
through several nations have not only been able to reconstruct her last
years of life and the cause of her death, but also retrieved hitherto
unknown manuscripts which led to the discovery of Amalia Nizzoli's tomb.<br> <br>The
documents leading to the discovery of the tomb and the relative
research have been published in C. Rindi Nuzzolo - I. Guidotti, "Amalia
Nizzoli e la sua tomba perduta. Storia di un ritrovamento e degli ultimi
anni di vita dell'autrice di Memorie sull'Egitto", Studi dedicati alla
memoria di Giuseppe e Amalia Nizzoli - Vol. I, Firenze (2015).</p><p><br></p><p>Text in Italian.<br></p>
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