Pietro Romanelli

Pietro Romanelli
Born(1889-12-20)December 20, 1889
Rome, Italy
DiedAugust 3, 1981(1981-08-03) (aged 91)
Rome, Italy
OccupationArchaeologist
Organizations

Pietro Romanèlli (born in Rome, Italy in 1889 – died in Rome, Italy in 1981) was an Italian archaeologist.

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. Among his students was the Roman archaeologist and researcher at Ostia Antica Maria Floriani Squarciapino (1917-2003).

Living Latin

Romanelli was fluent in spoken Latin. Scholar Karolis Lyvens says that "apparently [Romanelli] had a penchant for the use of spoken and written Latin for communicating with international colleagues."

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). Romanelli led both ALF and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani until just before his death in 1981.

Necrology

Sources

Fabrizio Vistoli, s.v. "Pietro Romanelli", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 88, Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2017, pp. 221–224.

References

  1. ↑ A. M. Colini. "Pietro Romanelli" StRom 30 (1982), 358–65. (necrology)
  2. 1 2 "Romanèlli, Pietro nell'Enciclopedia Treccani".
  3. ↑ Pietro Romanelli; Sandro Stucchi (1976). Cirene e la Grecia. L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. pp. 285–. ISBN 978-88-7062-065-8.
  4. 1 2 "Breviarium Academiae historiae" [Short history of the academy]. www.academialatinitatifovendae.com (in Latin). Retrieved 2026-07-01.
  5. 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.