Pietro Romanelli

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Pietro Romanelli (1889-1981)

Pietro Romanelli (born December 20, 1889 in Rome ; died August 3, 1981 there ) was an Italian classical archaeologist .

Romanelli began his archaeological research in Anatolia in 1913 . From 1914 he was a consultant for the Antiquities Administration ( Soprintendenza ai monumenti e scavi ) in Tripolitania , which he headed from 1919 to 1923. During this time he began excavating at Leptis Magna . In 1924 he completed his habilitation in "Archeology of Roman Africa" ​​and taught this scientific field without interruption until 1960 at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. In 1927 Romanelli became commissioner of the Museo Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano in Lecce , whose vases he published as part of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum . From 1930 to 1938 he directed the excavations in Tarquinia . In 1938 he moved to the Ministry of Culture as inspector for archeology. In this capacity he was involved in protecting the ancient monuments and collections of antiquities in Italy during the Second World War .

After the war, Romanelli was soprintendente for Ostia Antica from 1946 to 1952 and for the Forum Romanum and Palatine (the Soprintendenza archeologica di Roma IV ) from 1946 until his retirement in 1960. Under his leadership, the Iron Age huts were excavated as early traces of Rome's settlement . In addition to these activities and his enormously fruitful and extensive work as a lecturer, Romanelli was the spiritus rector for numerous scientific publication series: the Scavi di Ostia , the Monumenti della Pittura Antica in Italia , the Corpus del Mosaico in Italia , the Carta Archeologica , the Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia and the Monograph di Archeologia Libica and the Bollettino dell'Associazione Archeologica Romana . In addition, he stimulated the popular science series of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani . In addition to his extensive academic publication activity, which includes several hundred titles, Romanelli was editor of the Enciclopedia Italiana .

Romanelli was a member of numerous scientific institutions and academies. In 1950 he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and was president of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia from 1957 to 1966 . He was also a member of the Accademia Etrusca di Cortona , the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, which he also directed from 1960 to 1980. From 1959 to 1964 he was also President of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques . The Academia Latinitati Fovendae owes its foundation in 1967 to his initiative, who was himself an enthusiastic new Latin . The aims of the academy include the promotion of authors and poets of the New Latin language as well as the creation of a New Latin dictionary that reflects and takes into account the changed vocabulary of modern language usage.

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A comprehensive list of Pietro Romanelli's writings can be found in his book In Africa ea Roma. Scripta minora selecta. Rome 1981, pp. XI-XXVI.

  • Leptis Magna. Società editrice d'arte illustrata, Rome 1925.
  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Italia, Fasc. 4: Lecce, Museo provinciale Castromediano . Fasc. 1. Bestetti e Tumminelli, Milan / Rome 1928.
  • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Italia, Fasc. 6: Lecce, Museo provinciale Castromediano . Fasc. 2. Bestetti e Tumminelli, Milan / Rome 1930.
  • La Cirenaica romana. A. Airoldi, Verbania 1943.
  • Storia delle provincie romane dell'Africa. "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1959.
  • In Africa ea Roma. Scripta minora selecta. Bretschneider, Rome 1981.

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SURNAME Romanelli, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1981
Place of death Rome