Filippo Coarelli is an Italian archaeologist, Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the
University of Perugia.
Born in Rome, Coarelli was a student of
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli.[1] Coarelli is one of the foremost experts on
Roman antiquities and the history of early Rome. A leading expert on the
topography of ancient Rome, Coarelli produced a series of books from the 1980s and 1990s that have altered modern thinking about how Roman topography developed. His work on Italian monumental sanctuaries of the late
Roman Republic is considered standard.[2]
He led the team that discovered what is believed to be the villa in which
Vespasian was born at
Falacrinae.[3][4] Together with British colleagues, he has long been involved in the archaeological exploration and documentation of
Fregellae.[5][6]
His important and influential handbook furnishing an archaeological guide to Rome and its environs was translated into English by Daniel P. Harmon and James J. Clauss.[7]
^Mario Torelli, "Topography and Archaeology of Rome," translated by Helen Fracchia, in A Companion to the Roman Republic (Blackwell, 2010), p. 99.
^Coarelli, Filippo, Stephen Kay, and Helen Patterson. "Investigations at Falacrinae, the Birthplace of Vespasian." Papers of the British School at Rome 76 (2008): 47-73. Accessed May 27, 2021.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40311129.
^Ryzik, Melena (August 8, 2009). "Unearthed Villa Is Said To Be Roman Emperor's", The New York Times, p. C2.