Pietro Romanelli
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| Born | December 20, 1889 |
| Died | August 3, 1981 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
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Pietro Romanèlli (born in Rome, Italy in 1889 – died in Rome, Italy in 1981) was an Italian archaeologist.[1][2]
Born in Rome, he carried out excavations at Tarquinia, Ostia Antica, the Palatine Hill in Rome, at the Forum Romanum and at Leptis Magna in Libya.[3][2] Among his students was the Roman archaeologist and researcher at Ostia Antica Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003).
Living Latin
[edit]Romanelli was fluent in spoken Latin.[4] Scholar Karolis Lyvens says that "apparently [Romanelli] had a penchant for the use of spoken and written Latin for communicating with international colleagues."[5]
In 1966 Romanelli organized an international conference in Rome titled "Congress for the study and use of Latin" (Congresso internazionale per lo studio e l’uso del latino [it]; Omnium gentium ac nationum conventus Latinis litteris linguaeque fovendisto [la]). This conference founded a new learned society with similar goals, which would eventually become the Academia Latinitati Fovendae (ALF).[5][4] Romanelli led both ALF and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani until just before his death in 1981.
Necrology
[edit]- A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" StRom 30 (1982), 358–65.
Sources
[edit]Fabrizio Vistoli, s.v. "Pietro Romanelli", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 88, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2017, pp. 221–224.
References
[edit]- ↑ A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" StRom 30 (1982), 358–65. (necrology)
- 1 2 "Romanèlli, Pietro nell'Enciclopedia Treccani".
- ↑ Pietro Romanelli; Sandro Stucchi (1976). Cirene e la Grecia. L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. pp. 285–. ISBN 978-88-7062-065-8.
- 1 2 "Breviarium Academiae historiae" [Short history of the academy]. www.academialatinitatifovendae.com (in Latin). Retrieved 2026-07-01.
- 1 2 Lyvens, Karolis (2025). "Living Latin (1880 – c. 2000): ideology and identity: A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities" (PDF). research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 Jul 2026.
