Isidoro Falchi (
Montopoli in Val d'Arno, 26 April 1838 –
Campiglia Marittima
Campiglia Marittima is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Livorno.
Its toponym has been attested for the first time in 1004 as ''Campi ...
, 30 April 1914) was an Italian doctor and self-taught
archaeologist. He is notable for his discovery of the
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remains at
Vetulonia
Vetulonia, formerly called Vetulonium ( Etruscan: ''Vatluna''), was an ancient town of Etruria, Italy, the site of which is probably occupied by the modern village of Vetulonia, which up to 1887 bore the name of Colonnata and Colonna di Buriano: t ...
and the
necropolises at
Populonia
Populonia or Populonia Alta ( Etruscan: ''Pupluna'', ''Pufluna'' or ''Fufluna'', all pronounced ''Fufluna''; Latin: ''Populonium'', ''Populonia'', or ''Populonii'') today is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Piombino (Tuscany, central Italy). As ...
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Sources
* "Falchi, Isidoro" in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 44, Roma 1994.
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Life (in Italian)
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1838 births
1914 deaths
19th-century Italian physicians
Italian archaeologists
Etruscan scholars