Luciano Petech [SEP] place of birth
Luciano Petech
Luciano Petech (8 June 1914, Trieste – 29 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian scholar of Himalayan history and the early relations between Tibet, Nepal and Italy. He was Chair of History of Eastern Asia at the University of Rome from 1955 to 1984. He is the most renowned of the students of the Italian explorer, academic and Asian scholar Giuseppe Tucci.
Luciano Petech was born in 1914 and retired in 1984. He learned almost all European languages, included Latin, as well as Tibetan
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Luciano Petech died in his home on 19 September 2010.
Further reading.
- Luciano Petech. 1988. "Selected Papers on Asian History." Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. pp. xi–xviii.
External links.
- Luciano Petech on ippolito-desideri.net (in Italian)
- obituary at JIATS