Larissa Bonfante (March 27, 1931,Naples, Italy – August 23, 2019, New York City, New York)^[1] was an Italian-American classicist, Professor ofClassicsemerita atNew York University and an authority on Etruscanlanguage andculture.

Bonfante was born in Naples, the daughter of professorGiuliano Bonfante.^[2] She grew up in Princeton, NJ. Bonfante would go on to study fine arts and classics atBarnard College, earning her B.A. in 1954; she completed her M.A. in classics from theUniversity of Cincinnati in 1957 and her Ph.D. in art history and archaeology atColumbia University in 1966.^[3] She studied at Columbia withOtto Brendel. Bonfante received theGold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 2007 from theArchaeological Institute of America.^[4] She was a founding member of the American section of theIstituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. She edited the periodical publicationEtruscan News that reported on the activities of the American section.^[5][6] In 2009 Bonfante was elected as a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society.^[7]

TheArchaeological Institute of America created an endowment fund to raise monies to support a lecture in Bonfante's honor as part of its lecture program.^[8] The inaugural named lecture was delivered by Dr.Jean MacIntosh Turfa on March 21, 2021, for theStaten Island (NY) society of the AIA.^[9]

• 1970. "Roman Triumphs and Etruscan Kings: The Changing Face of the Triumph."Journal of Roman Studies60:49-66.
• 1975.Etruscan dress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Reviews:American Journal of Archaeology 81.2:253-254
• 1979.The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim. translator, with Alexandra Bonfante-Warren.
• 1981.Out of Etruria : Etruscan influence north and south. Oxford: BAR.ISBN 9780860541219
• (withGiuliano Bonfante)The Etruscan language: an introduction, 1983
• 1986. ed.Etruscan life and afterlife: a handbook of Etruscan studies. Wayne State University Press.^[10]
• 1989. "Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art."American Journal of Archaeology93.4:543-70.
• 1990.Reading The Past Etruscan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 1997Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum USA / 3, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.
• 2001.Italy and Cyprus in antiquity, 1500-450 BC : proceedings of an international symposium held at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, November 16–18, 2000. Nicosia: Costakis and Leto Severis Foundation.
• 2006. (withJudith Swaddling)Etruscan myths. University of Texas Press.
• 2006. (with Blair Fowlkes).Classical antiquities at New York University. Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider.^[11]
• 2011.The barbarians of ancient Europe: realities and interactions. Cambridge University Press.^[12]
• 2013.The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim. Bilingual Edition.
• 2016.The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome. University of Michigan Press.ISBN 978-0-472-11989-9

• "Larissa Bonfante morta a New York: l'archeologa era tra le maggiori specialiste di Etruschi"Il Messaggero (31 August 2019)^[13]
• "Addio all'archeologa napoletana Larissa Bonfante: fu insigne etruscologa"Il Mattino.it (31 August 2019)^[14]
• In memoriam statement published by the Archaeological Institute of America, authored byJean MacIntosh Turfa (6 September 2019).
• "In Memoriam: Larissa Bonfante (1931–2019)" inEtruscan and Italic Studies 22:1-2 (12 Nov 2019) authored byNancy de Grummond.
• Commemoration inEtruscan Newsv. 22 (Winter 2020) published byNew York University.

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