Andrea Carandini
Andrea Carandini (left) with Giorgio Napolitano
Born(1937-11-03)3 November 1937
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
InstitutionsUniversità di Roma La Sapienza
Doctoral advisorRanuccio Bianchi Bandinelli

Andrea Carandini (born 3 November 1937) is an Italian professor of archaeology specialising in ancient Rome. Among his many excavations is the villa of Settefinestre.[1]

Biography

The son of Italian diplomat Count Nicolò Carandini (1896–1972), Andrea was born in Rome and was a member of the faculty of the University of Rome La Sapienza beginning in 1963. Carandini was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, completing his laurea in 1962 with a thesis on the Roman villa of Piazza Armerina. His research is focused on the topography of ancient Rome, Etruria in the Roman period, and the analysis of monumental complexes in various cities in Italy including 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 and the 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.[2]

Carandini is the third cousin of actor Christopher Lee.[3]

In the 1990s Carandini was also involved in the excavation of the Auditorium site in Rome,[4] a substantial domestic structure dating to the fifth century B.C.; it is most likely to have been the monumental residence of an important clan (gens). Some of his views on the historicity of Romulus are controversial.[5][6]

Carandini's Atlas of Ancient Rome appeared in English in 2017.[7][8][9]

Excavations

Publications

References

  1. ^ Andrea Carandini; M. Rossella Filippi (1985). Settefinestre: una villa schiavistica nell'Etruria romana. Panini. ISBN 9788876860416.
  2. ^ R. Suro. (June 10, 1988). "Newly Found Wall May Give Clue To Origin of Rome, Scientist Says." The New York Times
  3. ^ "1156211875 - Carandini Family: Christopher Lee, Nicol Carandini, Andrea Carandini, Ercole Consalvi, Marie Carandini, Matteo Carandini, Rosina Palmer".
  4. ^ Andrea Carandini; Maria Teresa D'Alessio; Helga Di Giuseppe (2006). La fattoria e la villa dell'Auditorium nel quartiere Flaminio di Roma. L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. ISBN 978-88-8265-406-1.
  5. ^ Andrea Carandini (2003). La nascita di Roma: dèi, lari, eroi e uomini all'alba di una civiltà. Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-16409-6.
  6. ^ T. P. Wiseman (2001). "Reading Carandini". The Journal of Roman Studies. 91: 182–193. doi:10.2307/3184776. JSTOR 3184776. S2CID 164038806.
  7. ^ Andrea Carandini (2017). The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography and Portraits of the City. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-16347-5.
  8. ^ Mary Beard. (July 13, 2017).Reading the Ruins of Ancient Rome The New York Review of Books
  9. ^ Nicholas Purcell. (November 7, 2017). Rome, opened city Times Literary Supplement
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