- Giovanni Gozzadini
Giovanni Gozzadini (
15 October 1810 -August 25 1887 ) was an Italianarcheologist .The last male heir of a noble family in
Bologna , that had given the city men-at-arms, doctors, and jurists, Giovanni was a highly educated man in other areas such as politics. His excavations in anecropolis on his property at Villanova (Castenaso, eight kilometers south-east of Bologna), lasting from 1853 to 1855, involved 193 tombs, six of which were separated from the rest as if to signify a special social status. The "well tomb" pit graves lined with stones contained funerary urns. Thus were unearthed the first remains of theVillanovan culture , the firstIron Age culture in ancient Italy.He also undertook the first excavations that brought to light the Etruscan necropolis at
Marzabotto , financed by the conti Aria, who were the landowners of the entire Pianura di Misano.He is also known for his ground-breaking study of the medieval
Towers of Bologna . At her death, his only daughter, Gozzadina Gozzadini left the family fortune to the Hospital of Bologna, where the university pediatric clinic carries the family name today, the "Clinica Pediatrica Universitaria Gozzadini di Bologna".
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