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Pliny the Younger's Laurentinum

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

The discovery of the Laurentinum in the Castel Porziano Estate

The Laurentimu of Pliny the Younger Pliny the younger was a nice and very interesting ancient Roman writer. He didn’t leave important treatises as the ones which his uncle has left us, but his letters remain a very significant source of news about the times of his life. Among them, very important ... more

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