Guglielmo Gatti

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Guglielmo Gatti (born September 29, 1905 in Rome ; died September 2, 1981 there ) was an Italian classical archaeologist .

Guglielmo Gatti came from a family of classical archaeologists as the son of Edoardo Gatti and his wife Giulia Giuliani. His grandfather Giuseppe Gatti , married to a descendant of Bernini , was an important archaeologist and epigraphist .

Gatti first took up engineering studies, which he gave up after the untimely death of his father in 1928 in order to be able to support his family. As a technical draftsman he took up a position at the Soprintendenza alle Antichità di Roma , then at the administration of the city of Rome. At the University of “La Sapienza” in Rome, he acquired the Laurea in Lettere antiche with a thesis on the Field of Mars . As a result, his career led him to the soprint tendency for museums, monuments and excavations at the "X Ripartizione del Comune di Roma". In his scientific work, Gatti focused on the topography of ancient Rome. Here he did significant work that partially revolutionized the understanding of Rome's monuments and their localization. In 2009, based on the material created by Gatti, the Athenaeum of Emperor Hadrian was discovered near Piazza Venezia.

Together with Gianfilippo Carettoni , Antonio Colini and Lucos Cozza , he published the new edition of the Forma Urbis Romae , the famous marble city map from the time of Septimius Severus , in 1960 . For his services, Gatti, who was a member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia from 1950 , received the Libera Docenza for the topography of Rome at the University of "La Sapienza". In 1983 a largo along Via dei Fori Imperiali was named after him. He bequeathed the family archive of the three generations of Gattis archaeologists to the Italian state. Today it is kept in the “Archivio Centrale dello Stato”. His smaller writings were reissued in 1989 in an anthology.

Fonts (selection)

  • Le donne nella vita e nell'arte di Gabriele d'Annunzio. Guanda, Modena 1951.
  • Vita di Gabriele d'Annunzio. Sansoni, Florence 1956.
  • with Gianfilippo Carettoni, Antonio Colini, Lucos Cozza: La pianta marmorea di Roma antica. Forma urbis Romae . Danesi, Rome 1960.
  • Ara Pacis Augustae. Ediz. del Tritone, Rome 1970.
  • Topografia ed edilizia di Roma antica. Ristampa anastatica di tutti gli articoli di Guglielmo Gatti. Edited by Carlo Buzzetti and Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1989.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Paolo Brogi: L'Ateneum di Adriano emerge sotto piazza Venezia. La scoperta durante gli scavi per la linea C . In: Corriere della Sera, October 9, 2009, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Gatti, Guglielmo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1981
Place of death Rome