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The three Polyphemus' grottoes.

by Egenia Salza Prina Ricotti

SPERLONGA AND ITS PROBLEM As I have just told, when I arrived at Sperlonga I found myself involved in its principal problems and, as you have seen (“Sperlonga: la scoperta” and “La mia ricostruzione” in this site) I succeeded in solving them but then I couldn’t stop at this but at this moment I discovered ... more


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BIOGRAPHY

 

ESPR 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