Francesca Ridgway

Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway (born 9 March 1936, in Rome, Kingdom of Italy; died 7 March 2008, in Colchester, Essex (U.K.)) was a leading twentieth century scholar of Etruscan and Italic archaeology.

Born Francesca Romana Serra in Rome, Ridgway was one of five children born to Sardinian parents. Her maternal grandfather was the scholar Giovanni Sanna. She graduated from La Sapienza in 1964 where she wrote a thesis on a class of Caeretan impasto pottery known as "impasto stampigliato". As a postgraduate in the Scuola Archeologica in Rome, she was taught by both Giovanni Becatti and Renato Peroni. She conducted archaeological fieldwork at Etruscan sites in Italy and was involved in her husband's work related to excavations conducted on the island of Ischia.

Publications

David Ridgway and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway. 1979. Italy before the Romans: the Iron Age, Orientalizing, and Etruscan periods. London: Academic Press. Otto Brendel; Francesca R. Serra Ridgway. 1995. Etruscan Art. 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1996. I corredi del fondo Scataglini a Tarquinia: scavi della fondazione Ing. Carlo M. Lerici del Politecnico di Milano per la Soprintendenza archeologica dell'Etruria meridionale. Milan: Edizioni Et. Giuliana Riccioni and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway. 2003. Vasi greci da Vulci: necropoli dell'Osteria; scavi Ferraguti-Mengarelli 1929 - 1931. Milan: Comune di Milano. Festschrift David Ridgway; Francesca R. Serra Ridgway; Edward Herring; et al.. 2006. Across Frontiers: Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians & Cypriots. Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway. London: Accordia Research Institute, University of London. WorldCat. Francesca R. Serra Ridgway; Lisa Pieraccini. 2010. Pithoi stampigliati ceretani: una classe originale di ceramica etrusca. Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider.