Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta

Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta

Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta (born February 21, 1783 in Palermo , † February 15, 1863 in Florence ) was Duke of Serradifalco in Sicily .

Under the name "Serradifalco" he was one of the most important archaeologists in Sicily of his time. He carried out numerous excavations and wrote a five-volume work on the ancient sites of Sicily under the title "Antichità della Sicilia".

In 1838 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1836 he was made an honorary member of the Prussian and in 1842 an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Works

• Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta di Serradifalco: Antichità della Sicilia ,
  • Vol. 1, Palermo 1834 digital copy, Heidelberg University Library , [1]  in the German Digital Library ,
  • Vol. 2, Antichità di Selinunte, Palermo 1834 digital copy, Heidelberg University Library , [2]  in the German Digital Library ,
  • Vol. 3, Antichità di Agragante, Palermo 1836 digitized, Heidelberg University Library , [3]  in the German Digital Library ,
  • Vol. 4, Antichità di Siracusa e delle sue colonie, Palermo 1840 digitized, UB Heidelberg , [4]  in the German Digital Library ,
  • Vol. 5, Antichità di Catana, Palermo 1842 digitized version, Heidelberg University Library , [5]  in the German Digital Library

literature

• Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli : SERRADIFALCO, Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, duca di. In Enciclopedia Italiana Volume 31, Rome 1936 ( online at treccani.it )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry by Domenico Lo Faso Duca di Serradifalco at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 13, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Archivio biografico comunale of Palermo