DISCOVERER OF ROME
Twenty-eight j-ears ago Senator Corraclo Ricci began for the Government of Italy the work of directing excavations of ancient buildings of Rome and reorganising the museums. At that time, as in earlier years, many old statues, paintings, and documents of national importance were being bought by foreigners and taken from Italy. Senator Ricci died in June, at the age of seventy-six years. Among structures of the past made visible, so far as they remained, in his time, were Trajan's Forum, Caesar's Forum, the Temple of Venus Genetrix, the Temple of Mars, the Loggia of the Knights of Rhodes, and part of the Basilica of Maxentius. Senator Eicci founded and built up the Italian Institute of Archaeology and History of Art.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1934, Page 5
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123DISCOVERER OF ROME Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1934, Page 5
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