Boris de Rachewiltz (born as Luciano Baratti) (1926–1997) was an Italian-Russian

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...

and writer on Africa and the ancient world.

Biography

Boris de Rachewiltz, brother of the historian

Igor de Rachewiltz Igor de Rachewiltz (April 11, 1929 – July 30, 2016) was an Italian historian and philologist specializing in Mongol studies. Igor de Rachewiltz was born in Rome, the son of Bruno Guido and Antonina Perosio, and brother of Boris de Rachewiltz ...

,Walravens, Hartmut. ''In Memoriam: Igor de Rachewiltz (1929–2016)'', in ''Monumenta Serica – Journal of Oriental Studies'', 65/2017, 2, p. 445–451. married

Mary Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...

, the daughter of

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

and

Olga Rudge Olga Rudge (April 13, 1895 – March 15, 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary. A gifted concert violinist of international repu ...

, in 1946. He studied Egyptology at the

Pontifical Biblical Institute The Pontifical Biblical Institute (also known as Biblicum) is a research and postgraduate teaching institution specialised in biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies. It is an institution of the Holy See entrusted to the Society of Jesus. His ...

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

from 1951 to 1955, and at the

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

from 1955 to 1957. After archaelogical and ethnographic fieldwork in Upper Egypt and the Sudan, he taught as a professor at the

Pontifical Urban University The Pontifical Urban University, also called the ''Urbaniana'' after its names in both Latin and Italian,; it, Pontificia Università Urbaniana. is a pontifical university under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People ...

. Under the alias ''Brando'' he worked as an informant for the Italian domestic intelligence agency

SISDE Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (Intelligence and Democratic Security Service), was the domestic intelligence agency of Italy. With the reform of the Italian Intelligence Services approved on 1 August 2007, SISDE was replac ...

Works

*''Massime degli antichi egiziani'' (1954) as ''Maxims of the Ancient Egyptians'' (1987) translated by

Guy Davenport Guy Mattison Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005) was an American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher. Life Guy Davenport was born in Anderson, South Carolina, in the foothills of Appalachia on Novem ...

*''Liriche amorose degli antichi egiziani'' (1955) *''Il libro dei morti degli antichi egiziani'' (1958) *''Incantesimi e scongiuri degli antichi egiziani'' (1958) *''The rock tomb of Irw-K3-Pth.'' (1960) *''Incontro con l'arte Africana'' (1959) as ''Introduction to African Art'' (1966) translated by

Peter Whigham Peter George Whigham (March 6, 1925 –August 6, 1987) was an English poet and translator, widely known for his translation of the poems of Catullus published by Penguin Books in 1966. He helped popularize the writings of authors like Ezra Po ...

*''An Introduction to Egyptian Art'' (1960) translated by R. H. Boothroyd *''Vita nell'antico Egitto'' (1962) *''Black Eros: Sexual Customs of Africa from Prehistory to the Present Day'' (1964) *''La Valle dei Re e delle Regine'' (1965) *''Processo in verso'' (1973) *''Sesso magico nell'Africa nera'' (1983) *''Gli antichi Egizi. Immagini, scene e documenti di vita quotidiana'' (1987) *''L'occhio del faraone.'' (1990) Rachewiltz, Boris de, Valenti Gomez i Oliver *''7 Greeks'' (1995) with

*''Roma Egizia. Culti, templi e devinità egizie nella Roma Imperiale'' (1999) with Anna Maria Partini *''I miti egizi'' (2000)

References

*Anne Conover (2001), ''Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound''

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