Carlo Lodovico Visconti

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Carlo Lodovico Visconti (also Carlo Ludovico Visconti ; born 1818 in Rome ; died on June 19, 1894 ibid) was an Italian archaeologist .

Carlo Lodovico Visconti, son of Felice Visconti and nephew of Pietro Ercole Visconti , was the last member of the Roman archaeological dynasty of the Visconti , which began with Giovanni Battista Visconti , 1768 successor of Johann Joachim Winckelmann in the office of Commissario delle Antichità , and over four generations archeology and the administration of antiquities dominated the Papal States.

Carlo Lodovico Visconti took part in the excavations in Rome and the provinces of the Papal States from 1855, and from 1859 he assisted his uncle Pietro Ercole in his of Pius IX. initiated systematic excavations in Ostia , also in his work for the Commissariato delle Antichità , and supported him in his work as a professor of archeology at the then papal University of Rome . In 1883 he became director of the Museo Torlonia and, after the death of Ignazio Jacometti (1819-1883) in 1884, as Direttore dei Musei e delle Gallerie Pontificie and Commissario delle Antichità pei Musei Pontifici, responsibility for the Vatican collections and antiquities.

In addition to his independent excavations in Ostia, where he found his most important student in the young Rodolfo Lanciani , he discovered the domus Clionis , the late 2nd century city ​​villa of the consul and city ​​prefect Lucius Fabius Cilo , which was later integrated into the church of Santa Balbina all'Aventino . Century. He dug the sanctuary of the Arval Brethren at Via Magliana and put the Excubitorium - a post of vigiles called the city of Rome firefighters - in the Regio XIV on Monte dei Fiori near San Crisogono free.

Carlo Lodovico Visconti was permanent secretary of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia and secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature . He was a member of the Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma since it was founded in 1872 and editor of the first 21 volumes of the Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma , for which he contributed numerous articles.

Publications (selection)

In addition to numerous, sometimes extensive essays, which Rodolfo Lanciani has compiled in a bibliography by Carlo Lodovico Visconti:

  • Nuova descrizione dei musei vaticani. Volume 1. Salviucci Rome 1872.
  • Guida del Palatino. Bocca, Rome 1873.
  • Il quinipondio ed il tresse del medagliere Vaticano. Tipografia Della Pace, Rome 1880.
  • Il busto di Anacreonte scoperto negli orti di Cesare. Salviucci, Rome 1884.
  • I monumenti del Museo Torlonia. Tipografia Tiberina di F. Setth, Rome 1885 ( digitized version ).
  • Un 'antichissima pittura delle tombe esquiline. Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome 1889.
  • Descrizione dei monumenti di scultura antica del Museo Ludovisi. Salvati, Foligno 1891.

literature

  • Giulio Quirino Giglioli : Visconti. In: Enciclopedia Italiana. Volume 35, 1937, pp. 444-445, here p. 445.
  • Rodolfo Lanciani : Carlo Lodovico Visconti. In: Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Volume 22, 1894, pp. 259-260 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rodolfo Lanciani: Catalogo delle pubblicazioni archeologiche del comm. Carlo Lodovico Visconti. In: Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Volume 22, 1894, pp. 365-371 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Visconti, Carlo Lodovico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Visconti, Carlo Ludovico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1894
Place of death Rome