Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway (born 9 March 1936, in Rome, Kingdom of Italy; died 7 March 2008, in Colchester, Essex (U.K.))[1] was a leading twentieth century scholar of Etruscan and Italic archaeology.
Trained at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway was a student of Massimo Pallottino.
[3] As a postgraduate in the Scuola Archeologica in Rome, she was taught by both Giovanni Becatti and Renato Peroni.
[1] She worked for many years in Scotland where she was Honorary Fellow in the Department of Archaeology (later, Classics) at Edinburgh University.
Upon the retirement of her husband in 2003, she became an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies in London.