Vincenzo Tusa

Vincenzo Tusa (12 July 1920 – 5 March 2009) was an Italian archeologist.

Biography Vincenzo Tusa initially studied in Mistretta, and later obtained his degree in literature in Catania in 1944, going on to become an assistant in Archeology. In 1947 he was hired by the Superintendency of Antiquities in Bologna and two years later he was transferred to Palermo. In 1963 he assumed the position of Superintendent for the BBCC of western Sicily.

During his time at the Superintendency, Tusa was responsible for promoting several excavations in the archaeological sites of Soluntum, Segesta, Selinunte, Motya, Marsala.

In the 1960's Tusa was the promoter of the Sicilia Archeologica magazine, as well as professor of Punic Antiquities at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Palermo until 1991.

Tusa was also a member of the Accademia dei Lincei for the Archeology category within the Moral Sciences class. His son, Sebastiano Tusa, also an archaeologist, held the position of head of the Superintendency for the Sea of the Sicilian Region.

Additionally, Tusa's name appears on the list of members of the Masonic lodge P2.

Acknowledgments In Tusa the Sicilian Region has dedicated the Cave Archeology Area of Cusa Vincenzo Tusa.

Works

L'urbanistica di Solunto, 1970 Anastylosis ad Agrigento Tempio di Eracle e Selinunte Tempio C, 1975 La scultura in pietra di Selinunte, 1984 La preistoria in Sicilia, 1987 Selinunte nella mia vita, 1990 Segesta, 1991 Siciliani illustri: Antonino Salinas, 1995 Sarcofagi romani in Sicilia, 1995 Il parco archeologico di Selinunte, 2011