Boris de Rachewiltz (born as Luciano Baratti[1]) (1926–1997) was an Italian Egyptologist and writer on Africa and the ancient world.
[2] He studied Egyptology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1951 to 1955, and at the Cairo University from 1955 to 1957.
After archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Upper Egypt and the Sudan, he taught as a professor at the Pontifical Urban University.
[2] Under the alias Brando he worked as an informant for the Italian domestic intelligence agency SISDE.
[1] Defendant in 1994 in a trial of extreme right-wing militants, he was later acquitted for not having committed the act.