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3 unusual facts about Ippolito Rosellini


Giovanni Paolo Lasinio

He executed the plates for Ippolito Rosellini's Monumenti dell' Egitto e de la Nubia (Monuments of Egypt and Nubia) (1833–44).

Ippolito Rosellini

The final version of the work was edited with the assistance of Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, but the relationship between the two ended when Champollion's brother demanded that he become the sole editor of the work.

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They met in Florence in August 1825, during Champollion's journey to study the important Egyptological collections in Turin, Rome and Florence.



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