Pericle Ducati
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'''Pericle Ducati''' (11 July 1880 – 28 October 1944) was an Italian archaeologist and [[Etruscology|Etruscologist]]. He was a professor at the [[University of Bologna]] and the author of several studies on the [[Etruscan civilization]].
== Biography ==
Pericle Ducati was born in Bologna into a family originally from Trentino. He studied [[Italian literature]] at the University of Bologna, where his professors included [[Giosuè Carducci]] and [[Edoardo Brizio]]. He later studied at the [[Sapienza University of Rome]] under [[Luigi Pigorini]] and [[Rodolfo Lanciani]].
He then became a professor of [[classical archaeology]] at the universities of [[University of Catania|Catania]] (1912–1916), [[University of Turin|Turin]] (1916–1920) and Bologna (from 1920). From 1921, he directed the [[Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna]].{{Cite web|url=https://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/archivio/persone/ducati-pericle|title=Ducati Pericle|website=Storia e Memoria di Bologna|publisher=Comune di Bologna|access-date=2024-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203130313/https://www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/ducati-pericle-519776-persona|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 December 2022}} From 1923 to 1924 and again from 1943 to 1944, he was dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bologna.
Ducati was a member of the Superior Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts (Consiglio Superiore per le Antichità e le Belle Arti), as well as a member of numerous Italian and international learned societies. A scholar of [[Ancient art|classical]] and [[Etruscan art]], he wrote over 3,000 articles and monographs.
Following the [[Armistice of Cassibile]] in 1943, Ducati remained loyal to [[Fascism]] and joined the [[Italian Social Republic]]. This proved to be his downfall. On 24 February 1944, he was attacked on the doorstep of his home by members of the [[Gruppi di Azione Patriottica]] who shot him in the back, seriously wounding him.{{Cite web|url=https://bibliotecasalaborsa.it/bolognaonline/objects/pericle_ducati_muore_dopo_un_agguato_dei_partigiani|title=16 febbraio 1944. Attentati contro Pericle Ducati e Umberto Amaduzzi|website=Bologna Online|publisher=[[Biblioteca Salaborsa]]|date=9 August 2021|access-date=2024-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503155037/https://www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it/bolognaonline/cronologia-di-bologna/1944/pericle_ducati_muore_dopo_un_agguato_dei_partigiani|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 May 2023}} He survived the attack briefly and died of his injuries on 28 October of the same year in a hospital in [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]].
== Works ==
* ''Brevi osservazioni sul ceramista attico Brigo'', Bologna, Società cooperativa tip. Azzoguidi, 1904.
* {{cita libro|titolo=I vasi dipinti nello stile del ceramista Midia. Contributo allo studio della ceramica attica|città=Roma|editore=Accademia nazionale dei Lincei|anno=1909|url=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006924324}}
* ''Le pietre funerarie felsinee'', Roma, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1911.
* ''Contributo allo studio degli specchi etruschi figurati'', [s.i.], [s.n.], 1912.
* ''Pitture funerarie degli etruschi'', 1914.
* ''Sui riti funebri dei sepolcreti etruschi felsinei'', Bologna, Stab. Poligrafico Emiliano, 1915.
* ''Osservazioni di demonologia etrusca'', Roma, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1916.
* ''Saggio di studio sulla ceramica attica figurata del sec. IV av. Cr.'', Roma, Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1916.
* ''L'arte classica'', Torino, UTET, 1920.
* {{cita libro|titolo=Storia della ceramica greca|città=Firenze|editore=Fratelli Alinari|anno=1922|url=https://archive.org/details/storiadellaceram02ducauoft}}
* ''Contributo allo studio dell'arce etrusca di Marzabotto'', Bologna, Stabilimenti Poligrafici Riuniti, 1923.
* {{cita libro|titolo=Guida del Museo civico di Bologna|città=Bologna|editore=Regia Tipografia Fratelli Merlani|anno=1923|url=http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/biblio/w1923_guidmc.pdf}}
* ''I monumenti di Grecia e di Roma'', Torino, 1924 (2ª ed. 1925).
* ''Etruria antica'', Torino, Paravia, 1925 (2ª ed. 1927).
* ''Storia dell'arte etrusca'', 2 voll., Firenze, Rinascimento del libro, 1927.
* ''Origine e attributi del Fascio Littorio'', 1927
* ''Storia di Bologna. I tempi antichi'', 1928
* ''Lisippo'', Roma, 1930
* ''Gli scavi d'Italia'', Firenze, 1931
* ''Pontische Vasen'', Berlin, 1932
* ''Il santuario di Olimpia'', Roma, 1932
* ''La scultura greca'', Firenze, 1933-36
* ''La scultura etrusca'', Firenze, 1934
* ''La scultura romana'', Firenze, 1934
* ''Storia d'Italia. L'Italia antica dalle prime civiltà alla morte di Cesare'', 1936
* ''L'arte in Roma dalle origini al secolo VIII'', 1938
* ''Le problème étrusque'', Paris, Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1938
* ''Come nacque Roma'', Firenze, 1939
* ''Italia preromana e stirpe italica'', 1940
* ''Preistoria e Protostoria dell'Emilia'', 1942
== Notes ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{DBI|title=VENUTI, Ridolfino|first=Nicola|last=Parise|volume=41|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pericle-ducati_(Dizionario-Biografico)}}