Word: trombetti
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice...
...drowned man was Professor Alfredo Trombetti, 63. Once a barber's apprentice, he studied languages, won a scholarship at the University of Bologna, later a Government money grant to concentrate on the Etruscan mystery. He announced last April that soon he would reveal startling findings, but not before they were complete. Scholars waited anxiously to hear whether he had left any notes on his life work, and whether the notes, if any, were decipherable...
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