Andrea Carandini

Andrea Carandini

Andrea Carandini (left) with Giorgio Napolitano
Born (1937-11-03)3 November 1937
Rome, Italy
Nationality Italian
Fields Archaeology
Institutions Università di Roma "La Sapienza
Doctoral advisor Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli

Count Andrea Carandini (born November 3, 1937 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian professor of archaeology specialising in ancient Rome. Among his many excavations is the villa of Settefinestre.[1]

Biography

The son of Italian diplomat Count Nicolò Carandini (18961972), Andrea was born in Rome and has was a member of the faculty of the University of Rome La Sapienza beginning in 1963. Carandini was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, 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, Etruria in the Roman period, and the analysis of monumental complexes in various cities in Italy including Volterra, Grumentum, Pompeii, and Veii. 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.[2]

Carandini is the third cousin of actor Christopher Lee.[3]

In the 1990s Carandini was also involved in the excavation of the Auditorium site in Rome,[4] 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.[5][6]

Publications

External links

References

  1. Andrea Carandini; M. Rossella Filippi (1985). Settefinestre: una villa schiavistica nell'Etruria romana. Panini.
  2. R. Suro. "Newly Found Wall May Give Clue To Origin of Rome, Scientist Says." New York Times June 10, 1988 http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/10/world/newly-found-wall-may-give-clue-to-origin-of-rome-scientist-says.html
  3. http://www.eurobuch.com/buch/isbn/1156211875.html
  4. Andrea Carandini; Maria Teresa D'Alessio; Helga Di Giuseppe (2006). La fattoria e la villa dell'Auditorium nel quartiere Flaminio di Roma. L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. ISBN 978-88-8265-406-1.
  5. Andrea Carandini (2003). La nascita di Roma: dèi, lari, eroi e uomini all'alba di una civiltà. Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-16409-6.
  6. T. P. Wiseman. 2001. “Reading Carandini.” The Journal of Roman Studies 91:182-193 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3184776
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 11, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.