Andrea Carandini (born November 3, 1937) is an Italian professor of

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

specialising in

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...

. Among his many excavations is the villa of

Settefinestre Villa Settefinestre lies between Capalbio and Orbetello in Tuscany, Italy, and is the site of a late Republican Roman slave-run villa owned by the senatorial family of the Volusii, built in the 1st century BC and enlarged in the 1st century AD w ...

Biography

The son of Italian diplomat Count

Nicolò Carandini Count Nicolò Carandini (6 December 1896 – 18 March 1972) was a leader of Italian post−World War II liberalism and a champion of European Federalism. He was the first Italian ambassador to Britain after World War II, and the first presi ...

(1896–1972), Andrea was born in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

and was a member of the faculty of the

University of Rome La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

beginning in 1963. Carandini was a student of

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (19 February 1900 – 17 January 1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian. Biography Bianchi Bandinelli was born in Siena to Mario Bianchi Bandinelli (1859–1930) and Margherita Ottilie "Lily" von Korn ...

, completing his laurea in 1962 with a thesis on the Roman villa of Piazza Armerina. His research is focused on the

topography of ancient Rome The topography of ancient Rome is the description of the built environment of the city of ancient Rome. It is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on archaeology, epigraphy, cartography and philology. The word 'topography' here has its ...

, Etruria in the Roman period, and the analysis of monumental complexes in various cities in Italy including

Volterra Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods. History Volt ...

Grumentum Grumentum ( grc, Γρούμεντον) was an ancient Ancient Rome, Roman city in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the ''comune'' of Grumento Nova, c. south of Potenza by the direct road through Anxia, and by the ''Via Herculia'', at the po ...

, Pompeii, and

Veii Veii (also Veius; it, Veio) was an important ancient Etruscan city situated on the southern limits of Etruria and north-northwest of Rome, Italy. It now lies in Isola Farnese, in the comune of Rome. Many other sites associated with and in the ...

. Since 1993 he has coordinated a project in Rome's ''suburbium'' and the Tiber valley in conjunction with the Soprintendenza Archeologica and the Sovrintendenza Comunale di Roma. He continues to direct the excavations of the north slope of the Palatine Hill in Rome where important discoveries relating to the earliest city of Rome have been made, including the discovery of the famous Palatine wall in 1988. Carandini is the third cousin of actor Christopher Lee. In the 1990s Carandini was also involved in the excavation of the

Auditorium site An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances. For movie theatres, the number of auditoria (or auditoriums) is expressed as the number of screens. Auditoria can be found in entertainment venues, community ...

, a substantial domestic structure dating to the fifth century B.C.; it is most likely to have been the monumental residence of an important clan ('' gens''). Some of his views on the historicity of Romulus are controversial. Carandini's ''Atlas of Ancient Rome'' appeared in English in 2017. Nicholas Purcell. "Rome, opened city." ''Times Literary Supplement'' November 7, 2017 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/atlas-of-ancient-rome/

Excavations

*1964-1982: Piazza Armerina. *1966-1977: Ostia Antica. *1974-1985: Villa Settefinestre. *1985: Carthage. *1987-1992: Volterra. *1989: Tipasa. *1985: Palatine Hill, Rome. *1990-1993: Basilicata. *1993: Pompeii. *1996: Veii. *1996-1997: Parco della Musica, Rome.

Publications

*''Ricerche sullo stile e la cronologia dei mosaici della Villa di

Piazza Armerina Piazza Armerina ( Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ''Ciazza''; Sicilian: ''Chiazza'') is a ''comune'' in the province of Enna of the autonomous island region of Sicily, southern Italy. History The city of Piazza (as it was called before 1862) developed ...

'' (1964) *''La secchia Doria: una "storia di Achille" tardo-antica. Contributo al problema dell'industria artistica di tradizione ellenistica in Egitto.'' (1965) *''Vibia Sabina : funzione politica, iconografia e il problema del classicismo adrianeo'' (1969) *''Schiavi e padroni nell'Etruria romana : la Villa di Settefinestre dallo scavo alla mostra'' (1979) *''Archeologia e cultura materiale: dai lavori senza gloria nell'antichità a una politica dei beni culturali'' (1979) *''Esclaves et maîtres en Etrurie romaine : les fouilles de la villa de Settefinestre : catalogue de l'exposition'' (1981) *''Filosofiana, la villa di Piazza Armerina : immagine di un aristocratico romano al tempo di Costantino'' (1982) *''La Romanizzazione dell'Etruria : il territorio di Vulci (1985)'' *''Settefinestre : una villa schiavistica nell'Etruria romana'' (1985) *''Schiavi in Italia : gli strumenti pensanti dei Romani fra tarda Repubblica e medio Impero'' (1988) *''Storie dalla terra. Manuale di scavo'' (1981) *''Roma: Romolo, Remo e la fondazione della città'' (2000) *''Archeologia del mito. Emozione e ragione fra primitivi e moderni'' (2002) *''Paesaggi d’Etruria. La Valle dell’Albegna, la valle d’Oro e la Valle del Chiarore'' (2002, with F. Cambi) *"Variations sur le thème de Romulus. Réflexions après la parution de l’ouvrage “La nascita di Roma”" (in De Boccard, ''La naissance de la ville dans l’Antiquité'', 2003) *"Il mito romuleo e le origini di Roma" (in M. Citroni, ''Memoria e identità. La cultura romana costruisce la sua immagine'', 2003) *''La nascità di Roma. Dei, Lari, eroi e uomini all'alba di una civiltà'' (2003) *''Palatino,

Velia , alternate_name = Hyele, Ele, Elea , image = Velia Excavation and Tower.jpg , alt = , caption = View of the excavations and the tower at Velia , map_type = Italy , map_alt = , map_size = , relief = , coordinates = , location = Ve ...

e Sacra Via: Paesaggi urbani attraverso il tempo'' (2004) *''Remo e Romolo. Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa)'' (2006) *''La leggenda di Roma'' (2006) *"The Blessing of the Palatine and the Founding of

Roma Quadrata Roma quadrata (Latin, "Square Rome") was an area, or perhaps a structure, within the original pomerium of the ancient city of Rome, probably the Palatine Hill with its Palatium and Cermalus peaks and its slopes. It apparently dated to the earlies ...

," in ''Rome: Day One'' (2011), Princeton:

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. *Andrea Carandini with Paola Carafa, ''The Atlas of Ancient Rome. Biography and Portraits of the City'', in 2 volumes, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. (edition in English - 2017, edition in Italian - 2012)

References

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