Giacomo Boni (archaeologist)

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Giacomo Boni
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materAccademia di Belle Arti
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology

Giacomo Boni (25 April 1859 – 10 July 1925) was an

Roman architecture. He is most famous for his work in the Roman Forum.[1]

Life

Born in Venice, Boni studied architecture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in his native city and later moved to Rome. During World War I Boni participated as a soldier, and was elected senator in 1923, at which time he embraced fascism.

Boni died in Rome, and he is buried in the

Orti Farnesiani
on the Palatine Hill.

Work

Venice

His early work as an architect involved him in the restoration of the

Doge's Palace. During this time he demonstrated his technical skills.[2] In the 1880s, Boni met Horatio Brown, who became his colleague in a shared passion for antiquities.[3]

Rome

In 1888 Boni went to Rome, where in 1898 the Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione G. Baccelli named him director of excavations in the

Forum Romanum. Boni directed this important project from 1898 until his death in 1925. He was interested in the stratigraphy of the Forum, an important advance in the science of Roman archaeology
.

His excavations led to many important discoveries, including the

Domus Flavia
.

The excavations were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I and resumed in 1916.

Giacomo Boni in his study

Roman religion and fascism

Boni developed a strong interest in the

Palatine hill in an extraordinary ceremony organized by the regime. He is considered an early figure in what scholars later would label as "sacred fascism".[6]

Selected publications

Further reading

References

  • ROMA - I FORI IMPERIALI. The Documentation and Dissemination of the Recent Archaeological Investigations and Related Studies of the Imperial Fora of Rome (1995 – 2008). on F... at www.flickr.com Prof. Giacomo Boni, "The Public Library of the Forum Museum." THE TIMES (London), July 14, 1905, pg.4. From: Preface: Rome, the Imperial Fora, and Archaeology – ‘The Demanding and Difficult Work of the Archaeologists: To Excavate, Interpret, Classify and Inform.’ cf. Martin G. Conde, ROMA - I FORI IMPERIALI. The Documentation and Dissemination of the Recent Archaeological Investigations and Related Studies of the Imperial Fora of Rome (1995 – 2007).
  • P. Romanelli, s.v. “Boni Giacomo”, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani), Roma 1970, pp. 75–77
  • A. Capodiferro, P. Fortini (a cura di), Gli scavi di Giacomo Boni al foro Romano, Documenti dall’Archivio Disegni della Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma I.1 (Planimetrie del Foro Romano, Gallerie Cesaree, Comizio, Niger Lapis, Pozzi repubblicani e medievali), Roma 2003.
  • Paola S. Salvatori, L’adozione del fascio littorio nella monetazione dell’Italia fascista, in «Rivista italiana di numismatica e scienze affini», CIX, 2008, pp. 333–352.
  • Paola S. Salvatori, Liturgie immaginate: Giacomo Boni e la romanità fascista, in "Studi Storici", LIII, 2012, 2, pp. 421–438.
  • "Trajan's column." Proceedings of the British Academy, London (1907). vol. 3 p. 93-98.
  • Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venezia. Venice: Stabilimento tipografico dei fratelli Vicentini, 1887.
  • La torre de S. Marco: communicazione. s.l. : s.n., 1903.
  • The Roman marmorarii. Rome: s.n., 1893.
  • "Il duomo di Parenzo ed i suoi mosaici." Archivio storico dell'Arte 7 (1894) [unnumbered, 28 pp.]

External links

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-4419-0426-3
    .
  2. ^ Giacomo Boni (1887). Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venezia. Fratelli Visentini.
  3. ^ Sandro Consolato, 'Giacomo Boni, l'archeologo-vate della Terza Roma', in 'Gianfranco De Turris, Esoterismo e Fascismo (2006)
  4. ISBN 978-88-7140-499-8
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  5. ^ Giacomo Boni (1900). Le recenti esplorazioni nel Sacrario di Vesta. Tipografia della R. Accademia dei Lincei.
  6. ISBN 978-1-3500-5686-2
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