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| Following the end of the Second World War, the Mezzadria sharecropping farm system began to decline as a result of the advent of modern industrialized agriculture and the general prosperity of Italy. As the population of tenant farmers at Spannocchia dwindled and agriculture declined drastically during the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, the farm gradually took on a new role, providing housing and work space for programs in archeology conducted by the American non-profit Etruscan Foundation, created in 1958 by Delfino Cinelli’s son Ferdinando. Ferdinando's daughter Francesca Cinelli and her husband Randall Stratton have managed the property since moving to Spannocchia from the United States in 1992. |
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