Italy’s Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli is making a point to skip this year’s Venice Biennale opening. Nevertheless, Giuli did make sure to attend a ceremony held at Rome’s La Marmora barracks yesterday. There, U.S. officials formally returned 337 looted antiquities, archival materials, and artworks back to Italy. The newfound treasures bear Etruscan, Greek, Italic, and Egyptian influences, and date from the Villanovan era (900 to 700 B.C.E.) through the Hellenistic period (323 to 31 B.C.E.). Officials from Italy’s Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage worked alongside America’s Federal Bureau for Investigation and Department of Homeland Security —as well as the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. —to bring these relics home. Neither Italy’s Ministry of Culture nor the office of U.S. ambassador to Italy Tilman Fertitta returned my request for further details regarding precisely when and how these works vanished.…