Filippo Coarelli is an Italian archaeologist, Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the
University of Perugia
The University of Perugia ( Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public university in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale.
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Born in Rome, Coarelli 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 ...
. Coarelli is one of the foremost experts on
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of Roman civilization
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antiquities and the history of early Rome. A leading expert 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 ...
, Coarelli produced a series of books from the 1980s and 1990s that have altered modern thinking about how Roman topography developed. His work on Italian monumental sanctuaries of the late
Roman Republic
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is considered standard.
He led the team that discovered what is believed to be the villa in which
Vespasian
Vespasian (; ; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79. The last emperor to reign in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for 27 years. His fiscal reforms and consolida ...
was born at
Falacrinae. Together with British colleagues, he has long been involved in the archaeological exploration and documentation of
Fregellae.
His important and influential handbook furnishing an archaeological guide to Rome and its environs was translated into English by Daniel P. Harmon and James J. Clauss.
In 1997, he was elected a member of the
Academia Europaea
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Works
*''Il foro romano'' 3 v. Ed. Quasar (1983-2020).
*''Dictionnaire méthodique de l'architecture grecque et romaine'' (editor, 1985).
*''I santuari del Lazio in età repubblicana'' (1987).
*''Il foro boario : dalle origini alla fine della repubblica'' (1988).
*Numerous contributions to ''
Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae'', E. M. Steinby, ed. (Quasar).
*''Da Pergamo a Roma: i Galati nella città degli Attalidi'' (1995).
*''Il Campo Marzio: dalle origini alla fine della Repubblica'' (1997).
*''Belli e l'antico: con 50 sonetti di G. G. Belli'' (2000)
*''The column of Trajan'' (2000).
*''The Colosseum'' (2001).
References
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Living people
Archaeologists from Rome
Academic staff of the University of Perugia
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
Members of Academia Europaea
20th-century Italian archaeologists
21st-century archaeologists
Italian classical scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)