Ferdinando Castagnoli Explained

Ferdinando Castagnoli (June 18, 1917, in Prato – July 28, 1988, in Marina di Pietrasanta) was a Roman topographer who taught at the University of Rome.^[1]

Among Castagnoli's fieldwork accomplishments was the amazing discovery of the Latin sanctuary at Lavinium (modern Pratica di Mare) 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 Aeneas.^[2]

Castagnoli was a student of Giuseppe Lugli. Among his students was Adriano La Regina, a former archaeological superintendent of Rome.

He was a member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

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. 1989. "Ferdinando Castagnoli 1917-1988." PBSR 57:xi-xiv.
• Jacques Heurgon. 1989. "FERDINANDO CASTAGNOLI 1917-1988." Revue Archéologique, Nouvelle Série, Fasc. 2:357-8.

Notes and References

1. Web site: CASTAGNOLI, Ferdinando in "Enciclopedia Italiana".
2. 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.