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Where was Larissa Bonfante educated from 1957 to 1966?
Larissa Bonfante Larissa Bonfante ( March 27 , 1931 , Naples , Italy – August 23 , 2019 , New York City , New York ) was an Italian-American classicist , Professor of Classics emerita at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture . Biography . Bonfante was born in Naples , the daughter of professor Giuliano Bonfante . She grew up in Princeton , NJ . Bonfante would go on to study fine arts and classics at Barnard College , earning her B.A . in 1954 ; she completed her M.A . in classics from the University of Cincinnati in 1957 and her Ph.D . in art history and archaeology at Columbia University in 1966 . She studied at Columbia with Otto Brendel . Bonfante received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 2007 from the Archaeological Institute of America . She was a founding member of the American section of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici . She edited the periodical publication Etruscan News that reported on the activities of the American section . In 2009 Bonfante was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society . Endowed lectureship . The Archaeological Institute of America created an endowment fund to raise monies to support a lecture in Bonfantes honor as part of its lecture program . The inaugural named lecture was delivered by Dr . Jean MacIntosh Turfa on March 21 , 2021 , for the Staten Island ( NY ) society of the AIA . Selected publications . - 1970 . Roman Triumphs and Etruscan Kings : The Changing Face of the Triumph . Journal of Roman Studies 60:49-66 . - 1975 . Etruscan dress . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Reviews : American Journal of Archaeology 81.2:253-254 - 1979 . The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim . translator , with Alexandra Bonfante-Warren . - 1981 . Out of Etruria : Etruscan influence north and south . Oxford : BAR . - ( with Giuliano Bonfante ) The Etruscan language : an introduction , 1983 - 1986 . ed . Etruscan life and afterlife : a handbook of Etruscan studies . Wayne State University Press . - 1989 . Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art . American Journal of Archaeology 93.4:543-70 . - 1990 . Reading The Past Etruscan . Berkeley : University of California Press . - 1997 Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum USA / 3 , New York , the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Ames , Iowa : Iowa State University Press . - 2001 . Italy and Cyprus in antiquity , 1500-450 BC : proceedings of an international symposium held at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University , November 16–18 , 2000 . Nicosia : Costakis and Leto Severis Foundation . - 2006 . ( with Judith Swaddling ) Etruscan myths . University of Texas Press . - 2006 . ( with Blair Fowlkes ) . Classical antiquities at New York University . Rome : LErma di Bretschneider . - 2011 . The barbarians of ancient Europe : realities and interactions . Cambridge University Press . - 2013 . The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim . Bilingual Edition . - 2016 . The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome . University of Michigan Press . Necrology . - Larissa Bonfante morta a New York : larcheologa era tra le maggiori specialiste di Etruschi Il Messaggero ( 31 August 2019 ) - Addio allarcheologa napoletana Larissa Bonfante : fu insigne etruscologa Il Mattino.it ( 31 August 2019 ) - In memoriam statement published by the Archaeological Institute of America , authored by Jean MacIntosh Turfa ( 6 September 2019 ) . - In Memoriam : Larissa Bonfante ( 1931–2019 ) in Etruscan and Italic Studies 22:1-2 ( 12 Nov 2019 ) authored by Nancy de Grummond . - Commemoration in Etruscan News v . 22 ( Winter 2020 ) published by New York University . External links . - Faculty page , New York University - Institute for Italic and Etruscan Studies - Academia.edu profile