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Giacomo Boni
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or "GIACOMO BONI (1859-), Italian archaeologist, was born at Venice April 25 18J9 and educated in Venice, Pisa and in Austria and Germany largely by making student journeys through the provinces of the ancient Roman Empire. He became successively superintendent of the architectural school of the Royal Academy of Venice, inspector of antiquities under the Ministry of Public Instruction, commissioner for the monuments of Rome, and, in especial, director of the excavations in the Roman Forum and on the Palatine Hill, begun in 1899 ( see 23.591 et seq.). These he has described in numerous reports, and he has also published a report on the campanile of St. Mark's at Venice, which was rebuilt under his direction and completed in 1910. He was given honorary degrees by both Oxford and Cambridge, and is a member of the Superior Council of Antiquities and Fine Arts for the kingdom of Italy. In 1918 he unearthed on the Palatine Hill a Greek marble statue of Victory dating back to the 5th century B.C. Besides his reports on Roman antiquities he published Hibernica, notes on burial places and customs of ancient Ireland (Eng. trans. 1906).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Giacomo Boni'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/giacomo-boni.html. 1910.
