Carlo Conti Rossini (1872–1949) was an Italian orientalist. He was director of the State Treasury from 1917 to 1925, a member of the

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in 1921 and

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from 1939. He wrote various works on the historical geography of

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, of which the most famous is ''Italia ed Etiopia dal trattato di Uccialli alla battaglia d'Adua'' (''Italy and Ethiopia from the Treaty of Uccialli to the Battle of Adwa'', 1935). He also wrote articles on phonetic Ethiopian (

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, 1940). His library is preserved in Rome.

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CONTI ROSSINI, Carlo
in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 28 (1983)
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, Éloge funèbre de M. Carlo Conti Rossini, correspondant étranger de l'Académiein Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Année 1950, Volume 94, Numéro 3, pp. 260-261.
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Università di Bergamo. 1872 births 1949 deaths Ge'ez language Ethiopian studies {{Italy-historian-stub