Pietro Romanelli

Pietro Romanelli
Born	(1889-12-20)December 20, 1889 Rome, Italy
Died	August 3, 1981(1981-08-03) (aged 91) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Archaeologist

Pietro Romanèlli (born in Rome, Italy in 1889 – died in Rome, Italy in 1981) was an Italian archaeologist.^[1][2]

Born in Rome, he carried out excavations at Tarquinia, Ostia Antica, the Palatine Hill in Rome, at the Forum Romanum and at Leptis Magna in Libya.^[3][2] Among his students was the Roman archaeologist and researcher at Ostia Antica Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003).

Necrology

• A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" StRom 30 (1982), 358–65.

Sources

Fabrizio Vistoli, s.v. "Pietro Romanelli", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 88, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2017, pp. 221–224.

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