Giuseppe Lugli

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Giuseppe Lugli (born July 18, 1890 in Rome ; died December 6, 1967 there ) was an Italian classical archaeologist and topographer .

Giuseppe Lugli studied at the University of Rome , where he received his doctorate in 1913. From 1914 to 1923 he was an assistant at the chair of archeology in Rome. In 1933 he followed a call to the Roman chair for Roman topography, which had been set up for Rodolfo Lanciani fifty years earlier . Two years before his retirement in 1960, the content orientation associated with the chair was expanded to include the ancient topography of all of Italy. Even after his retirement, Lugli taught until 1965. In 1960 he became director of the Scuola Nazionale di Archeologia .

Lugli first explored the Roman suburban villas. His doctoral thesis was devoted to the Villa Domitians in the Alban Mountains . This was followed by investigations into the Villa of Lucius Verus on the Via Claudia , the Villa of Herodes Atticus , the Villa of Maxentius on the Via Appia , the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli and many more. In 1923, with the support of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Unione Accademica Nazionale, he founded the Forma Italiae , a large-scale master plan for the ancient topography of Italy. In this context he was able to present his most extensive topographical studies, those on Anxur-Tarracina and Circeii on the ager Pomptinus , in two volumes in 1926 and 1928. At the same time he set standards in these works for the further development of the Forma Italiae .

In Lazio he also turned to research into late Republican buildings from the last two centuries BC. Chr. To. But his interests were broader, as his preoccupation with the Porta Nigra in Trier , the amphitheaters in Arles and Nîmes and the late Roman villa in Piazza Armerina showed. His interest was always focused on structural analyzes and the understanding of functions and functional contexts, the precise observation of which not only allowed indications of the dating of even unnamed buildings, but also their integration into a lived cultural context. His work “La tecnica edilizia romana, con particolare riguardo a Roma e Lazio” , published in 1957 and which is still a standard work on Roman construction technology today, was the fruit of these comprehensive and yet precise studies .

As early as 1952 he published the eight-volume work "Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae pertinentes" on the written sources of ancient Rome. Rome, its topography and its ancient monuments have always been at the center of his scientific work: the Basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline , the Casa della Farnesina , the Temple of Augustus, the smaller monuments in the Roman Forum, the Temple of the Laren and Penates the Velia and the Atrium Libertatis . He also devoted himself to urban problems such as the complex of topics insulae and population pressure or the defense based on the Servian city wall . For the Tabula Imperii Romani he contributed the leaves on Rome, Florence , Palermo and Trieste , even if only the latter was published in a final form.

Lugli was a member of many academies and received numerous awards. In the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei he was secretary of the Scienze Morali class until 1946 . For the Union Académique Internationale he presided over the commission for the map series Forma Orbis Romani from 1924 until his death .

Memberships and honors

Publications (selection)

  • La Villa di Domiziano sui Colli Albani . P. Maglione & C. Strini, Roma 1918.
  • La Zona Archeologica di Roma . Libreria di science e lettere, Rome 1924.
  • Forma Italiae. Region I, Latium and Campania. Vol. I, Ager Pomptinus, pars I, Anxur-Tarracina . Danesi, Rome 1926.
  • Forma Italiae. Region I, Latium and Campania. Vol. I, Ager Pomptinus, pars II, Circeii . Danesi, Rome 1928.
  • Il Foro Romano . Libreria di science e lettere, Rome 1930.
  • I Monumenti antichi di Roma e Suburbio . 4 volumes, G. Bardi, Rome 1930–40.
  • I Santuari celebri del Lazio antico . Luciano Morpurgo, Rome 1932.
  • Le grandi opere pubbliche . Bardi, Rome 1934.
  • with Goffredo Filibeck: Il porto di Roma imperiale e l'agro portuense . Officio dell'Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, Rome 1935.
  • Monumenti minori del Foro romano . Bardi, Rome 1947.
  • Foro romano, Palatino . Bardi, Rome 1949.
  • Roma nei suoi Monumenti . A. Signorelli, Rome 1950.
  • Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae pertinentes. Volumes 1-8, Rome 1952-1965.
  • La Tecnica edilizia romana: con particolare riguardo a Roma e Lazio . Bardi, Rome 1957.
  • L ́Anfiteatro Flavio . Bardi, Rome 1960.
  • Tabula Imperii Romani: sulla base della Carta internazionale del mundo alla scala di 1: 1,000,000: foglio L33, Trieste (Tergeste) . Litografia Artistica Cartografica, Florence 1961.

literature

  • Pietro Romanelli : Giuseppe Lugli . In: Studi romani . Volume 16 (1968), pp. 57-59, ISSN  0039-2995
  • André Piganiol : Éloge funèbre de M. Giuseppe Lugli, associé étranger de l'Académie . In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , Volume 112 (1968), pp. 41-43, ISSN  0065-0536 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Lugli, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lugli, Josephus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical archaeologist and topographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1967
Place of death Rome