Salvatore Bastianelli, archaeologist, since 1934 he was an honorary inspector for the Superintend... more Salvatore Bastianelli, archaeologist, since 1934 he was an honorary inspector for the Superintendency of Monuments. In the years before 1942 he directed important excavations in the territory of the Tolfa Hills, including the Roman baths called Taurine of Civitavecchia city and the Etruscan pagus called "Castellina del Marangone" of Santa Marinella city. He produced various studies published by the Institute of Etruscan Studies, the Accademia of Lincei and the Institute of Roman Studies. Bastianelli was a close friend of the archaeologists Pietro Romanelli, Raniero Mengarelli and Massimo Pallottino. The volume contains his biography, with the last unpublished excavation of 1946 in Civitavecchia, and the one hundred unpublished photos of the excavations (starting from 1913). The book is published by the historical civitavecchiese society and bears the patronage of the Municipality of Civitavecchia and the Superintendence of Archeology Fine Arts for the metropolitan area of Rome, the province of Viterbo and southern Etruria.
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