[2] He distinguished himself by a long period of exploration and field work in several continents and among a large number of tribes and population of Africa, Southwest Asia and India.

As an exponent of the anthropometric school, Cipriani was particularly interested in systematic measurements (cranial, but also of hands, feet, and all other kinds of body parts), and he was also fond of making plaster facial moulds made from life, for which he procured models among the populations he encountered.

At the same time he captured activities and tasks, ceremonies, habits, houses, landscapes, archaeological sites and elements of the fauna and flora of Crete.

In May 1943 he published in Florence his study "Creta e l'origine mediterranea della civiltà", in which he included a small fraction of the material he had collected in Crete.

[1] He began working at the Racial Office and contributing to Telesio Interlandi's journal La difesa della razza almost from its inception.