Pietro Rosa

He studied the settlements of the ancient Roman countryside and carried out a systematic series of excavations on the Palatine Hill in Rome.

A student of Luigi Canina, Rosa was an avid scholar of Rome and Latium.

[1] He also edited the Carta topografica del Lazio, an archaeological plan that he designed between 1850 and 1870 on a scale of 1:20,000.

The map, measuring 3.40 x 3.10m, charts the territory of Latium (modern Lazio) and the archaeological remains there.

In the following years he was inspector general of antiquities in the ministry of public instruction and he was made a senator on December 1, 1870.