[1] Pallottino was a student of Giulio Quirino Giglioli and worked early in his career on the Temple of Apollo at Veii.

One of his most influential works was the handbook Etruscologia originally published in 1942 in Milan, but today available in numerous languages and still consulted by scholars and students alike.

In 1937, Pallottino wrote an article debunking the so-called "Etruscan Warrior" purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (by John Marshall under the direction of Gisela M. A. Richter), as a forgery.

Richter remained unconvinced, but Pallottino was ultimately proven correct by the scholar Harold Parsons in 1961.

[3] He won the Balzan Prize in 1982 for Sciences of Antiquity: "For his research work and discoveries of outstanding importance carried out in the field of the sciences of antiquity through the excavation of Pyrgi, his contribution to the interpretation of the Etruscan language and his revealing research on the origins of ancient Rome and the peoples of pre-Roman Italy" (motivation of the Balzan General Prize Committee).