Andrea Carandini (born 1937) is an Italian archaeologist specializing in ancient Rome. Among his many excavations is the villa of Settefinestre. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... Villa Settefinistre in the comune of Orbetello, Tusany, Orbetello, Tuscany(?), is the site of a late Republican Roman slave-run villa owned by the senatorial family of the Volusii, built in the first century BCE and enlarged in the first century AD with a large The villa was fortified at...

The son of Nicolò Carandini, he was born in Rome and presently teaches Archaeology at the University of Rome La Sapienza. His research is focused on the topography of Rome, Etruria in the Roman period and the analysis of monumental complexes in various cities in Italy (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 e la 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 (cf. New York Times June 10, 1988). In the 1990s he was also involved in the excavation of the Auditorium site[1] in Rome, a substantial domestic structure dating to the fifth century B.C.; it was most likely the monumental residence of an important clan (gens). Some of his views on the historicity of Romulus are controversial. Carandini was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. Nicolò Carandini Count Nicolò Carandini (1899-1972) was the first Italian ambassador to Great Britain after World War II and subsequently was president of the airline Alitalia. ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Università della Sapienza) is the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. ... A view of Volterra. ... Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. ... Veii - or Veius - was in ancient times, an important Etrurian city 18 km NNW of Rome, Italy. ... See Palatine Hill for geography of Rome. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... Romulus may refer to any of these articles: Romulus is a mythical founder of Rome, brother of Remus. ... Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (b. ...

Works

• Ricerche sullo stile e la cronologia dei mosaici della Villa di Piazza Armerina (1964)
• La secchia Doria: una "storia di Achille" tardo-antica. Contributo al problema dell'industria artistica di tradizione ellenistica in Egitto. (1965)
• Vibia Sabina : funzione politica, iconografia e il problema del classicismo adrianeo (1969)
• Schiavi e padroni nell'Etruria romana : la Villa di Settefinestre dallo scavo alla mostra (1979)
• Archeologia e cultura materiale: dai lavori senza gloria nell'antichità a una politica dei beni culturali (1979)
• Esclaves et maîtres en Etrurie romaine : les fouilles de la villa de Settefinestre : catalogue de l'exposition (1981)
• Filosofiana, la villa di Piazza Armerina : immagine di un aristocratico romano al tempo di Costantino (1982)
• La Romanizzazione dell'Etruria : il territorio di Vulci (1985)
• Settefinestre : una villa schiavistica nell'Etruria romana (1985)
• Schiavi in Italia : gli strumenti pensanti dei Romani fra tarda Repubblica e medio Impero (1988)
• Storie dalla terra. Manuale di scavo (1991)
• Roma: Romolo, Remo e la fondazione della città (2000)
• Archeologia del mito. Emozione e ragione fra primitivi e moderni (2002)
• Paesaggi d’Etruria. La Valle dell’Albegna, la valle d’Oro e la Valle del Chiarore (2002, with F. Cambi)
• "Variations sur le thème de Romulus. Réflexions après la parution de l’ouvrage “La nascita di Roma”" (in De Boccard, La naissance de la ville dans l’Antiquité, 2003)
• "Il mito romuleo e le origini di Roma" (in M. Citroni, Memoria e identità. La cultura romana costruisce la sua immagine, 2003)
• La nascità di Roma. Dei, Lari, eroi e uomini all'alba di una civiltà (2003)
• Palatino, Velia e Sacra Via: Paesaggi urbani attraverso il tempo (2004)
• Remo e Romolo. Dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750 - 700/675 a.C. circa) (2006)
• La leggenda di Roma (2006)

External links

• Page at University of Rome La Sapienza