Fabio Maniscalco

Italian archaeologist
Fabio Maniscalco (Naples 1 August 1965 – 1 February 2008) was an Italian archaeologist, specialising in the protection of cultural property, and essayist.

Fabio Maniscalco has received many awards for his literary activity. In particular, he has received a Prize from the Italian "Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri" for the book Sarajevo. Itinerari artistici perduti and the ICCROM UNESCO Prize "Media Save Art" for his articles about protection of Kosovo's cultural property. Moreover, he has received the prizes "Friend of Art 2007" from Legambiente and "Safeguard of Cultural Heritage" from the "Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico". In 1997 Fabio Maniscalco was decorated by the President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro for his activity in the field of safeguard of cultural property. He was decorated, with NATO and Italian medals because he was officer during the peace keeping missions IFOR and SFOR, in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Alba, in Albania. Professor Maniscalco was Vice President of the Italian Committee of the Blue Shield, and member of the scientific committees of the Observatory Euro Mediterranean and the Black Sea and of the "Museo della Nave Romana di Grado" (Italian Ministry for Cultural heritage". Moreover, he was member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and honorary member of: Italian Union of the European Writers and Artists (UIL); Italian Association of Archaeologists and Forum per la Laguna di Venezia. He died in Naples on 1 February 2008, for complications due to his rare shape of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.

Fabio Maniscalco (editor),Protection, Conservation and Valorization of underwater cultural Property, 2004. Fabio Maniscalco, Piero Alfredo Gianfrotta (editors), Forma Maris. Forum internazionale di archeologia subacquea, (2001). Fabio Maniscalco, Fondamenti di archeologia subacquea, (1998). Fabio Maniscalco, Ninfei ed edifici marittimi severiani del Palatium imperiale di Baia, (1997). Fabio Maniscalco, Il nuoto nel mondo greco romano, (1995). Fabio Maniscalco, Archeologia Subacquea, (1992).

Fabio Maniscalco has published more than 200 papers, in international journals and books, and numerous Appeals for the safeguard of Cultural Property in areas of crisis.