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On 12 April 2012 the meeting L'India di Luigi Pio Tessitori  took place at the Sala Ajace of the Municipality of Udine. The initiative was promoted by the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale in the framework of the exhibition Hic sunt leones – Esploratori, geografi e viaggiatori tra Ottocento e Novecento. Dal Friuli alla conoscenza dei Paesi extraeuropei.. After addresses of welcome by Furio Honsell, Mayor Municipality of Udine, there were speeches by Gianfranco Fiaccadori (University of Milan), Fausto Freschi (Società  Indologica «Luigi Pio Tessitori»), Roberto Micheli (Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia) and Carlo Tasso (University of Udine)  At the end the LPT Project, a digital archive available online in a searchable database, including private papers, letters, diaries, photographic plates and manuscripts, has been officially presented.
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