Classical Studies 3904G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Flavio Biondo, Torre Del Greco, Domenico Fontana

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3904G
• Professor: Beth Greene

Document Summary

15th century: boccacio mentions pompeii as a lost culture , flavio biondo mentions in his italia illustrata the location of pompeii and. He knows they are near the modern sites of torre del greco and. Castellemmare di stabia: dictionary by nicoll perotti discusses herculaneum in campania in a list of other cities with this name. Digging for irrigation canals by domenico fontana went directly into ancient houses and the street between insula i. 6 and i. 7. None of these types of discoveries prompted identification with. Pompeii and these tunnels were filled back in and forgotten about. In fact, it was not known to be pompeii until 1756 when inscriptions were found with the town name included. 17th century: francesco bianchini (an astronomer) reported soundings in the area and. Ordered layers discovered by the architect francesco picchetti: they discovered 9 layers of occupation (they call it the villa of pompey ) but. Bianchini ascribes one layer to the citt di pompej .