Through the examination of the correspondence of Felice Barnabei held at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome and a number of documents at the Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte in Palazzo Venezia, also in Rome, new interesting data has emerged relating to the prospections and excavations conducted in 1892, with the participation of Francesco Mancinelli Scotti, in the territory between the northern shore of Lago di Bracciano and Sutri. The results of these investigations would become the topic of chapters two and three in the volume of the Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei of 1894 on the Narce excavation. The objective, as hypothesized by Felice Barnabei, a central !gure in archaeological research in the newly formed Regno d’Italia at the end of the 19th century, is to identify the places of origin of the peoples who had founded Narce and Falerii, the main centres of the Ager faliscus." According to Barnabei, this could only be discovered by «going up the river Treja», which traverses the entire Faliscan territory, intensely excavated in those years as part of the work for the Carta Archeologica d’Italia. This chapter aims to reconstruct the main events and characteristics of this excavation venture, which lasted just under a month, with particular attention to the role played by Mancinelli Scotti in light of a signed letter of July 1892 concerning his preliminary explorations." Furthermore, several reports sent to the Ministry of Education by the “Custode dei Monumenti di Civita Castellana” Giuseppe Magliulo, allow us to reconstruct the progress of the investigations week by week. To these documents is added a manuscript written by Adolfo Cozza on the results of the excavation essays. As a result of this work a quite unexpected image Mancinelli Scotti emerges, involved in this instance in the scienti!c activity of the Ministry and not as we usually !nd him, searching for pro!table business.

“Non sono di natura timida, ma il posto è così tetro, abbandonato che mi mette di cattivo umore, e chiunque là dentro sentirebbe il bisogno di compagnia…”. Francesco Mancinelli Scotti tra il lago di Bracciano e Sutri

Marco Pacifici
2021-01-01

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Through the examination of the correspondence of Felice Barnabei held at the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome and a number of documents at the Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte in Palazzo Venezia, also in Rome, new interesting data has emerged relating to the prospections and excavations conducted in 1892, with the participation of Francesco Mancinelli Scotti, in the territory between the northern shore of Lago di Bracciano and Sutri. The results of these investigations would become the topic of chapters two and three in the volume of the Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei of 1894 on the Narce excavation. The objective, as hypothesized by Felice Barnabei, a central !gure in archaeological research in the newly formed Regno d’Italia at the end of the 19th century, is to identify the places of origin of the peoples who had founded Narce and Falerii, the main centres of the Ager faliscus." According to Barnabei, this could only be discovered by «going up the river Treja», which traverses the entire Faliscan territory, intensely excavated in those years as part of the work for the Carta Archeologica d’Italia. This chapter aims to reconstruct the main events and characteristics of this excavation venture, which lasted just under a month, with particular attention to the role played by Mancinelli Scotti in light of a signed letter of July 1892 concerning his preliminary explorations." Furthermore, several reports sent to the Ministry of Education by the “Custode dei Monumenti di Civita Castellana” Giuseppe Magliulo, allow us to reconstruct the progress of the investigations week by week. To these documents is added a manuscript written by Adolfo Cozza on the results of the excavation essays. As a result of this work a quite unexpected image Mancinelli Scotti emerges, involved in this instance in the scienti!c activity of the Ministry and not as we usually !nd him, searching for pro!table business.
2021
9788831338042
Sutri, Bracciano, Francesco Mancinelli Scotti, archives, history of archaeology
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