Ettore Pais (27 July 1856, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy – 1939,

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) was an ancient historian, Latin epigrapher, and an Italian politician. Pais was the son of Michele Pais Leoni, a nobleman from

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and Carlotta Tranchero, from

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. He studied at Lucca and Florence from 1874, receiving his degree from Florence in 1878. Among his teachers were Atto Vannucci and the philologist Domenico Comparetti. After spending some years in Sardinia, he published ''La Sardegna prima del dominio romano'' in 1881. That same year he studied at Berlin with

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and the two collaborated on the fifth volume the ''

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'' that was published in 1884. He began his teaching career in Palermo in 1886 and moved to Pisa in 1888 where he would become professor of ancient history. Pais stayed there until 1899, when he began teaching at Naples, and later the

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from 1905.Rogers, Howard Jason; Münsterberg, Hugo (1905). ''Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904''. Houghton, Mifflin and company. p. 69. From 1910 to 1914 he was director of the

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and the excavations at

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. Pais studied as a visiting scholar at leading universities around the world and received many honorary degrees, including those granted to him by the following: professor of history and Roman law from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, honorary degrees at Oxford, Chicago and Paris. He taught courses in Paris at the Sorbonne, in Bucharest, Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Boston, Cambridge, New York, and Chicago. In 1911 he published ''La civiltà dei nuraghi e lo sviluppo sociologico della Sardegna'' and in 1923 ''Storia della Sardegna e della Corsica durante il dominio romano''. From 1923 until 1931 he was professor at the University of Rome and, from 1922 until his death, served in the Italian senate.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pais, Ettore 1856 births 1939 deaths People from Borgo San Dalmazzo Italian classical scholars Classical archaeologists 20th-century Italian historians University of Florence alumni University of Paris faculty University of Pisa faculty 19th-century Italian historians Italian archaeologists