Giuseppe Basile. Born at Castelvetrano in Sicily (1942), he took a degree in art history at the University of Palermo under Cesare Brandi (1964), and then went on to study at the Graduate School of Art History of Rome University under Giulio Carlo Argan (1965-67). Since 1976 he has worked as an official art historian for the Ministry for the Cultural and Environmental Heritage (now Cultural Heritage and Activities), first at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and then at the Istituto Centrale per gli, where since 1987 he has directed the Servizio per glib Interventi sui Beni...