The historian of Greek literature and philologist Manfredo Manfredi is died in its house of Florence to the age 86-year-old. Manfredi was considered one of the great names of the international papyrology.
For thirty years, from 1968 to 1998, professor Manfredi has been director and then president of “Istituto papirologico Girolamo Vitelli” in the University of Florence. He has worked to recovery, restoration, transcription and edition of numerous papyruses. From 1964 Manfredi has participated and directed campaigns of digging in Egypt of Florentine papyrological institute. He has worked in archaeological sites of Medinet El Faiyum (Kiman Fares) and El Sheikh Abadah (Antinoupolis).
He has been moreover collaborating of the Egizio Museum of Cairo, working to restoration and accommodation of papyruses emerged during the digging campaigns. Since 2000 he has followed the diggings of the necropolis north of Antinoupolis.
His books are noumerous. Professor Manfredi has collaborated to Italian edition of “Illustrated Dictionary Greek-Italian” by H.G.Liddell and R.Scott, published in 1975 and reprinted many times. Manfredi was born in 1925 in Aulla, a small village in north of Tuscany. He was graduated in Greek literature in 1948 and the successive year won a triennial scholarship at “Istituto papirologico Girolamo Vitelli” of the University of Florence. Here, Manfredi started a collaboration with professor Vittorio Bartoletti. As professor of the University of Florence, Manfredi has continued the work of Bartoletti. His students are today at the top in the field of the papyrology.