Corrado Melfi, Baron of St. John (Chiaramonte Gulfi

Chiaramonte Gulfi

Chiaramonte Gulfi is a town and comune in the province of Ragusa, Sicilia, Italy. As of 2007 Chiaramonte Gulfi had an estimated population of 8,035.-Geography:...

, January 12, 1850 - January 9, 1940) was an Italian historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 and archaeologist. At the end of XIX century he discovered the archeological site of Akrillai

Akrillai

Akrillai was an ancient Greek colony located in the modern province of Ragusa where theSicilian town of Chiaramonte Gulfi stands today. The ruins of the old colony can be found in the contrada Piano del Conte-Morana and Piano Grillo...

  and the minor site of Scornavacche, not far from Akrillai. In 1912 in his Cenni storici su Chiaramonte Gulfi he gave large accounts of his discoveries.

The findings of excavations are housed in the Hyblean Archaeological Museum of Ragusa

Ragusa, Italy

Ragusa is a city and comune in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Ragusa, on the island of Sicily, with around 75,000 inhabitants. It is built on a wide limestone hill between two deep valleys, Cava San Leonardo and Cava Santa Domenica...

 and in the Archeological Museum of Syracuse.