Rodolfo Lanciani’s Dismissal

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  • Susan M. Dixon La Salle University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-592

Keywords:

Rodolfo Lanciani, Felice Barnabei, classical antiquities dealing, history of museums of Rome, Archaeological Institute of America, archaeological service in Rome

Abstract

This essay deals with an episode in the career of classical archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani (1845–1929), director of excavations of the Roman Forum from c. 1877 to 1886. Despite his success as a scholar and excavator, the Italian government dismissed him from the archaeological service for improprieties in 1890. The major charges against Lanciani reveal the tensions between the city of Rome and the Italian state on issues related to owning, caring for, and displaying the nation’s antiquities. Significant social, economic, and political changes in the decades after the establishment of the new nation fueled the tensions.

Author Biography

Susan M. Dixon, La Salle University

Susan M. Dixon is the author of a monograph on the Bosco Parrasio, an 18th-century garden in Rome, and editor of an anthology of teaching sources on Italian Baroque art. She also has published on the archaeological illustrations of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) and currently is working on a biography of archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani (1845-1929).

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Published

2016-11-29

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2016)

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Research Papers

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