Ferdinando Castagnoli (born in

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June 18, 1917; died in

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July 28, 1988) was a Roman topographer who taught at the University of Rome. Among Castagnoli's fieldwork accomplishments was the amazing discovery of the Latin sanctuary at

Lavinium Lavinium was a port city of Latium, to the south of Rome, midway between the Tiber river at Ostia and Antium. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on a hill at the southernmost edge of the ''Silva Laurentina'', a ...

(modern

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) and its series of 13 altars, a find that was revealed to the world in 1959. Also at the site is the so-called heroon of

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.Hofmann, Paul. "2,500-Year-Old Altars Found Near Rome; Believed to Be Part of Lost Sanctuary of Lavinium ITALY UNEARTHS ANCIENT ALTARS." The New York Times May 13, 1959. p. 1. Castagnoli was a student of

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. Among his students was Adriano La Regina, a former archaeological superintendent of Rome. He was a member of

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Publications

* 1956. "La centuriazione di Cosa." ''Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome'
24:147+149-165
* 1956. ''Ippodamo di Mileto e l'urbanistica a pianta ortogonale.'' Rome: De Luca. (English translation, 1971. ''Orthogonal town planning in antiquity.'
MIT Press
) Review by John E. Coleman, ''The Classical World'
66.6 (1973):369-70
* 1958. ''Topografia e urbanistica di Roma''. Bologna : L. Cappelli. * 1972. ''Lavinium. I, Topografia generale, fonti e storia delle ricerche.'' Rome: De Luca. * 1975. ''Lavinium 2 : le tredici are.'' Rome: De Luca. * 1980. ''Topographia di Roma antica'' (Enciclopedia classica, sez. 3. 10, Turin 1957; 2d rev. ed., Turin. * 1982. "La leggenda di Enea nel Lazio." ''Studi Romani'' 30:1-15. * 1984. "Il Tempio Romano: Questioni di Terminologia e di Tipologia." ''Papers of the British School at Rome'' 52:3-20.

Necrology

* Obituary recorded in ''Vergilius'' 34 *

Lucos Cozza Lucos Cozza (born in Rome, Italy, on 11 April 1921 – 27 June 2011) was a Roman archaeologist. Born in Rome, Cozza was the son of the sculptor, count Lorenzo Cozza (Orvieto 1877 - Roma 1965), and the grandson of archaeologist Adolfo Cozza (Orvi ...

. 1989. "Ferdinando Castagnoli 1917-1988." ''PBSR'
57:xi-xiv.
*

Jacques Heurgon Jacques Heurgon (25 January 1903 – 27 October 1995) was a French university, normalian, Etruscan scholar and Latinist, professor of Latin language and literature at the Sorbonne. Married to Anne Heurgon-Desjardins, founder in 1952, of the Cent ...

. 1989. "FERDINANDO CASTAGNOLI 1917-1988." ''Revue Archéologique'', Nouvelle Série
Fasc. 2:357-8

References

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