Lucia Travaini
{{Short description|Italian numismatist}}
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Lucia Travaini (born 1953) is an Italian numismatist, archaeologist, and academic. She is an Associate Professor of Medieval and Modern Numismatics at the University of Milan.
Life
Travaini studied archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome. She worked for the Soprintendenza Archeologica, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, and at the National Roman Museum. From 1992 to 1998, she was a senior research associate to Philip Grierson at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. In 1998, she returned to Italy to join the University of Milan. She also taught at her alma mater between 2002 and 2005.{{cite web |url=https://coinsweekly.com/whoswho/travaini-lucia/ |title=Travaini, Lucia |date=27 January 2016 |website=Numismatic Who's Who |publisher=CoinsWeekly |accessdate=2019-06-20}}{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae - Lucia Travaini |url=http://www.unimi.it/chiedove/cv/ENG/lucia_travaini.pdf?1542648737580 |website=Università degli studi di Milano |accessdate=19 November 2018 |date=2017}}{{cite web |title=Medieval European Coinage |url=https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/research/mec |website=The Fitzwilliam Museum |publisher=University of Cambridge |accessdate=19 November 2018 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Lucia Travaini |url=http://www.studistorici.unimi.it/ecm/home/docenti/lucia-travaini |website=Dipartimento di Studi storici |publisher=Università degli Studi di Milano |accessdate=19 November 2018 |language=it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120020731/http://www.studistorici.unimi.it/ecm/home/docenti/lucia-travaini |archive-date= Nov 20, 2018 }}
Honours
In 2012, Travaini was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society, one of the highest awards for numismatists.{{cite web |title=The Society's Medal |url=https://numismatics.org.uk/honours-and-awards/the-societys-medal/ |website=The Royal Numismatic Society |accessdate=19 November 2018 |date=23 May 2014}} In 2014, she was awarded the Prix Duchalais by the {{lang|fr|Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres|italic=no}} for her book Le zecche italiane fino all'Unità (published 2011).{{cite web |title=Prix 2014 |url=http://www.aibl.fr/prix-et-fondations/prix-2014?lang=fr |publisher=Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |accessdate=19 November 2018 |language=French |date=4 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181119214404/http://www.aibl.fr/prix-et-fondations/prix-2014?lang=fr |archive-date= 19 November 2018 }} In 2016, she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium.{{cite web |title=Membres honoraires – Honoraire leden |url=http://www.numisbel.be/honorair.htm |website=numisbel.be |accessdate=19 November 2018 |date=1 December 2017}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Travaini |first1=Lucia |title=La Monetazione nell'Italia normanna |date=1995 |publisher=Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo |location=Rome |language=Italian}}
- {{cite book |last1=Grierson |first1=Philip |last2=Travaini |first2=Lucia |authorlink1=Philip Grierson |title=Medieval European coinage: Medieval European Coinage: Volume 14, South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia: With a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge|date=1998 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521582315}}
- {{cite book |last1=Travaini |first1=Lucia |title=Le zecche italiane fino all'Unità |date=2011 |publisher=Libreria dello Stato, Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato |location=Roma |language=Italian |isbn=978-8824013338}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
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Category:Archaeologists from Milan
Category:Italian women archaeologists
Category:21st-century Italian archaeologists
Category:Sapienza University of Rome alumni
Category:People associated with the Fitzwilliam Museum
Category:Academic staff of the University of Milan
Category:Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome