Ferdinando Castagnoli
Ferdinando Castagnoli was a Roman topographer who taught at the University of Rome.
Among Castagnoli's fieldwork accomplishments was the amazing discovery of the Latin sanctuary at Lavinium 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.
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 .
- 1956. Ippodamo di Mileto e l'urbanistica a pianta ortogonale. Rome: De Luca. Review by John E. Coleman, The Classical World .
- 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
- Jacques Heurgon. 1989. "FERDINANDO CASTAGNOLI 1917-1988." Revue Archéologique, Nouvelle Série, .
