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Lanciani, Rodolfo Amadeo
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Lanciani, Rodolfo Amadeo (rōdôl`fō ämädĕ`ō länchä`nē), 1847?–1929, Italian archaeologist. He was an authority on the ancient topography of Ostia and Rome and discovered many important Roman antiquities. Lanciani was made director of excavations (1875) and professor of Roman topography at the Univ. of Rome (1878). Among his works in English are Wanderings in the Roman Campagna (1909) and Ancient and Modern Rome (1925).
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Italian archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani determined the approximate location of the site in 1868, but more systematic research finally led to its discovery 140 years later.
Ruins of ancient arena discovered outside Rome by AFP / AFP Global Edition
In a lecture to the Accademia dei Lincei over a century ago, Rodolfo Lanciani made public three codices of sixteenth-century drawings after the antique, presently in the collections of the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe.
Monumenti antichi di Roma nei disegni di Alberto Alberti by Marder, T.A. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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