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Cortona’s archaeological museum, MAEC, and the national archaeological museum of Naples, MANN, worked together to offer a special exhibition, celebrating the key figure of Marcello Venuti. Two-hundred and eighty years ago, Marcello Venuti from Cortona was entrusted by the King of Naples (1738) with the curatorship of the Farnese collections and the supervision of the excavations at Herculaneum. This is the ancient name of Ercolano, the town destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79 AD. In his…