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

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

specialising in

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

. Among his many excavations is the villa of Settefinestre.

Biography

The son of Italian diplomat Count Nicolò Carandini (1896–1972), Andrea was born in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

and became a member of the faculty of the

University of Rome La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...

beginning in 1963. Carandini was a student of

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (19 February 1900 – 17 January 1975) was an Italian Archaeology, archaeologist and Art history, art historian. Biography Bianchi Bandinelli was born in Siena to Mario Bianchi Bandinelli (1859–1930) and Margheri ...

, 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 Etruria ( ) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria. It was inhabited by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that f ...

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 ...

, Grumentum,

Pompeii Pompeii ( ; ) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Villa Boscoreale, many surrounding villas, the city was buried under of volcanic ash and p ...

, and

Veii Veii (also Veius; ) 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 city-st ...

. 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 The Palatine Hill (; Classical Latin: ''Palatium''; Neo-Latin: ''Collis/Mons Palatinus''; ), which relative to the seven hills of Rome is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city; it has been called "the first nucleus of the ...

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 in

, 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 In ancient Rome, a gens ( or , ; : gentes ) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same ''nomen gentilicium'' and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens, sometimes identified by a distinct cognomen, was cal ...

''). Some of his views on the historicity of

Romulus Romulus (, ) was the legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and his contemporaries. Although many of th ...

are controversial. Carandini's ''Atlas of Ancient Rome'' appeared in English in 2017. Nicholas Purcell. (November 7, 2017)
Rome, opened city
''Times Literary Supplement''

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 Franco Cambi, Mariagrazia Celuzza, Elizabeth Fentress, Ida Attolini) *"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 Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is located near the modern village of Novi Velia near Ascea in the Province of Salerno, Italy. It was founded by Greeks from Phocaea as Hyele () around 538� ...

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'' (Lorenzo Argentieri, Paolo Carafa) 4 volumes. (Fondazione Lorenzo Valla ; Mondadori,, 2006) *"The Blessing of the Palatine and the Founding of Roma Quadrata," in ''Rome: Day One'' (2011), Princeton:

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. * with Paolo Carafa, ''Atlante di Roma antica : biografia e ritratti della città'' 2 v. (Milan: Electa, 2013) * with Paola Carafa, ''The Atlas of Ancient Rome. Biography and Portraits of the City'', in 2 volumes, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2017) * ''Io, Agrippina'' Editore Laterza, 2020. * ''Io, Nerone'' Editore Laterza, 2023.

References

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