IPPOLITO, Cavaliere, a celebrated scholar, was born at Pisa in 1800. His taste for archaeological studies was awakened under the tuition of a Servitan monk. He pursued them during his university career in his native city and in Bologna. The appointment in 1824 to the chair of oriental languages at Pisa increased his enthusiasm for his favourite subject. Taking up the particular branch of Egyptian hieroglyphics, he became a devoted disciple of Champollion. He accompanied that famous French orientalist in his exploration of Italy, and in his subsequent researches at Paris. He then, in 1828, went with him on a tour of discovery through Egypt and Nubia. He was also about to assist him in publishing the results of their common journey of investigation when Champollion died in 1832. Rosellini accordingly was left to conduct the great undertaking alone. The first volume of the work appeared in 1832, under the title of I Monumenti dell' Egitto e della Nubia. He had just published the eighth volume when he died in 1843. The two remaining volumes were conducted through the press by his friends in 1844.