Giuseppe Lugli was Professor of ancient Roman topography

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...

 at the University of Rome

University of Rome La Sapienza

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Lugli's career was prolific, although among his many significant contributions, several are paramount. In his topographical career, Lugli compiled the landmark Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae pertinentes (8 vols. 1952-69). The aim of this corpus was to collect all of the textual mentions in the ancient sources that pertain to the topography and monuments of Rome. The work is organized according to the Augustan regions of the city.

Lugli was also a student of architecture, and in particular of building techniques. His study La tecnica edilizia romana: con particolare riguardo a Roma e Lazio, Roma (Bardi, 1957) remains a seminal study of the technology of construction in Italy

Italy

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 during the 1st millennium B.C.

Lugli also founded the Forma Italiae

Forma Italiae

Forma Italiae is a project whose aim it is to compile a complete archaeological map and gazetteer of Italy.Giuseppe Lugli was the founder of the project. Thus far 39 volumes have appeared as of 2006. The volumes are published by Leo S. Olschki Editore in Florence, Italy. The current director of...

, a series of archaeological maps and concordance for Italy. This work continues today as a serial publication, and associated research project, directed by Prof. Paolo Sommella in the Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and Anthropology at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". The aim of Forma Italiae is to map the full archaeological landscape of Italy at a sufficient scale to facilitate a variety of research and teaching needs. A list of volumes in print is available at http://antichita.let.uniroma1.it/ricerca/v_forita.htm.Forma Italiae.

Necrology

• Romanelli, P.
  Pietro Romanelli
  Pietro Romanelli was an Italian archaeologist. He carried out excavations at Tarquinia, Ostia, the Palatine Hill in Rome, at the Forum Romanum and at Leptis Magna in Libya. Among his students was the Roman archaeologist and researcher of Roman Ostia Maria Floriani Squarciapino -Necrology:* A. M....
  
  , "Giuseppe Lugli", StRom 16 (1968), 57–9.