- Carlo Fea
Carlo Fea (Pigna — now in
Liguria ,2 February ,1753 - Rome,18 March ,1836 ) was an Italianarchaeologist .Fea studied law in
Rome , receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took orders. For political reasons he was forced to take refuge inFlorence ; on his return to Rome in 1799 he was imprisoned as a Jacobin by the Neapolitans, who at that time were occupying Rome, but was shortly afterwards freed and appointed "Commissario delle Antichità" and librarian toPrince Chigi . At Rome in 1781 Fea discovered astatue of adiscus throw er, the so called "Discobolus ", one of the known Roman copies of the famous Greek original statue inbronze created byMyron .Fea helped frame legislation to control the trade in, and excavation of, the antiquities of Rome, and undertook archaeological work on the Pantheon and the Forum there.
Fea revised and annotated an Italian translation of
Johann Joachim Winckelmann 's "Geschichte der Kunst", and also annotated some of the works ofG. L. Bianconi . Among his original writings he is best known for: "Miscellanea filologica, critica, e antiquaria"; and "Descrizione di Roma".References
* Ridley, R.T., 2000, "The Pope's Archaeologist: The Life and Times of Carlo Fea", Quasar. ISBN 88-7140-177-8
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