Sumerologists (query)

[ummia-inim-gina]

I have recently been updating my "Recommended Reading" post to include the entire "Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology" series put out by CDL press. Most of the authors I was already familiar with but there are two scholars "Salvatore Monaco" and "Giuseppe Visicato" that I cant seem to find any information on at all.
When googling Salvatore Monaco's name at first I found a profile of a professor from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" that I thought was him but then when I read further this is a professor of systems theory and all of his published work had to do with space engineering without any references to Assyriology. So I'm thinking there must be two Prof. Salvatore Monacos.
Giuseppe Visicato on the other hand has multiple contributions to the field published and yet I can't seem to find any information on him anywhere on the internet (not even what university he works out of) Any help would be appreciated.
Also I am still on the look out for more information on Bendt Alster and Douglas Frayne. My current entries only include the universities they work out of. I would like to at the least include the positions they hold at those universities and where/when they earned their degrees from.

[us4-he2-gal2]

Heya Ummia -


I have forwarded your questions about the Italians to Silvia, she is the only one I know of to take school in Italy. As for the problem of obtaining any biography of Frayne, I share this frustrating problem - the man does some great work but I know less about him then I do about many scholars distant in time or space.. However, if all remains the same, I am scheduled to take a introductory course under him in the coming year, so I expect to be able to retreive said information than.

[ummia-inim-gina]

It is exciting to read you are going to be studying under Frayne. What is the coarse you will be under him?

[us4-he2-gal2]

Should be an introductory to Ancient Near Eastern history - the course is shared by an Egyptologist. Got some information back from Silvia -she's given some great answers She said:


"Visicato worked on Adab tablets at Cornell University (as Maiocchi did), he has many publication available. He is a specialist of Old Akk. archives. and wrote a lot with Pomponio and something with Westenholz, but I think he doesn't teach anywhere.
Salvatore F. Monaco worked on the new virtual exhibition of the Baghdad Museum with Italian Carabinieri and many other scholars, but I don't know anything of him. "


Thanks to Silvia.

[us4-he2-gal2]

Ummia:


Took me awhile to get back to you on this, but I have learned that Frayne was educated at Yale, and studied Sumerian under W.W. Hallo . He is well known for his work on the RIM (Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia) series, and I understand he has written with a maximalist view (of which I am fond of) on many other topics, although I will have to track down a curriculam vitae as this has as you know, been hard to find by usual means.



Cheers ;]