Gianfranco Fiaccadori
Gianfranco Fiaccadori (16 October 1957 – 24 January 2015) was an Italian historian. By training a
Fiaccadori was born in Parma. By the age of seventeen, when he entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, he was fluent in Greek and Latin. He wrote his dissertation on the life of Gregentios, La ‘Vita’ di s. Gregenzio, vescovo dei Himyariti, under the supervision of Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli and Vera von Falkenhausen, in 1978–79. He received his doctorate in 1983. Beginning in that year, he took part in archaeological excavations in Bosra, identifying and publishing numerous Greek and Latin inscriptions.[2]
Fiaccadori spent some time at
Although he never visited Ethiopia, his interest in Ethiopian studies grew in later years.[2] He served as coeditor of the second through fifth volumes of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica.[1]
Fiaccadori died in his home in Parma after a short