Richard Hodges and Tuscany: from the pioneering excavations of the 80s to the ERC-Advanced nEU-Med project

Richard Hodges’ long relationship with Tuscany is closely connected to Riccardo Francovich, and to talk about it we must, of necessity, begin with their first meeting in 1981, which from the outset marked the beginning of an important professional relationship, as well as a personal one. Hodges and Francovich met in the latter’s home at Antella, a splendid place in the hills near Florence (Figure 1). At that time Francovich, seven years older than Hodges, was already a well-known scholar in Italy. After graduating in medieval history, he started to take an interest in archaeology, beginning at the time of…. © Archaeopress and the authors 2017.