Pirro Marconi

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Pirro Marconi (* 1897 in Verona , † 1938 ) was an Italian classical archaeologist .

Life

Pirro Marconi studied at the University of Rome . He was significantly involved in the excavations , which were carried out from 1925, initially under the direction of Paolo Orsi in Agrigento . He also had the eight columns on the south front of the Temple of Hercules erected again.

Marconi met his future wife Jole Bovio Marconi at the Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene and during excavations in Rhodes and Constantinople . The two archaeologists returned to Italy in 1926.

In 1927 they went to Palermo together , with Marconi being appointed director of the National Museum in Palermo at Paolo Orsi's instigation . In addition, he obtained the Ufficio alle Antichità della Sicilia occidentale (until 1932). In 1928 their daughter, later Marina Marconi Causi, was born. After teaching at the University of Palermo for a short time , he went to Ancona in 1931 and took over the chair of archeology from Biagio Pace in Naples in 1935 .

In 1936 he was appointed head of the archaeological mission in Albania . In 1938 he died in an airplane accident on the way back from there.

Works

  • Agrigento, Topography ed Arte , Vallecchi Editore, Florence 1929.
  • Agrigento arcaica: il santuario delle divinita Chtonie e il tempio detto di Vulcano , Rome 1933.
  • Agrigento , Rome 1933. 2nd edition 1949 (Itinerari dei musei, gallerie e monumenti d'Italia / Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione 26).

literature

  • Jole Bovio Marconi: Pirro Marconi: In memoriam , Palermo 1938.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Marinella Fiume: Siciliane. Dizionario biografico , E. Romeo, 2006, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Marconi, Pirro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona
DATE OF DEATH 1938