Sergio Donadoni

Fabrizio Sergio Donadoni (13 October 1914 – 31 October 2015) was an Italian archaeologist who worked in the disciple of Egyptology.

Life Born in 1914 in Palermo, he was fascinated by the ancient Egypt since childhood, with a particular interest on the Greco-Roman period. In 1931 he enrolled the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and later he moved to France and studied under Gustave Lefebvre, Alexandre Moret and Étienne Drioton. Donadoni then moved to Egypt, and since 1935 he participated to an excavation campaign at Antinoopolis led by his teacher, the archaeologist Evaristo Breccia. In 1938 he was a student of Hermann Junker at Cairo. During the war, from 1938 to 1940, he joined the excavation of the Middle Kingdom temple of Medinet Madi led by Achille Vogliano. At the end of the 1940s he returned to Italy and started teaching at the University of Pisa, He died on 31 October 2015 in Rome.