by Egenia Salza Prina Ricotti
GARDEN OF THE MARITIME VILLAS AND SPERLONGA Starting from the I cent. B.C beautiful maritime villas began to appear all along the Italic coasts. They were still amply influenced by the Hellenistic inspiration, and not only because Hellenistic were the works of art and the statues displayed in them, ... more
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In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more