Filippo Coarelli is an Italian archaeologist, Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Perugia

University of Perugia

University of Perugia is a public-owned university based 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

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, he is one of the foremost experts on Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 antiquities, a connoisseur of the history of early Rome, and a leading expert on the topography of ancient Rome

Topography of ancient Rome

The topography of ancient Rome is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on archaeology, epigraphy, cartography and philology.The classic English-language work of scholarship is A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome , written by Samuel Ball Platner, completed and published after his...

. Coarelli was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.-Biography:A Marxist, Bianchi Bandinelli was descended from ancient aristocracy in Siena. His early research focused on the Etruscan centers close to his family lands, Clusium and Suana...

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He led the team that discovered what is believed to be the villa in which Vespasian

Vespasian

Vespasian , was Roman Emperor from 69 AD to 79 AD. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians, who rose into the senatorial rank under the Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty...

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Works

• Il foro romano 2 v. (1983).
• 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).