Lucos Cozza

Lucos Cozza in 1990

Lucos Cozza (born in Rome, Italy, on 11 April 1921 – 27 June 2011) was an Italian Roman archaeologist.

Born in Rome, Cozza was the son of the sculptor, count Lorenzo Cozza (Orvieto 1877 - Roma 1965),[1] and the grandson of archaeologist Adolfo Cozza (Orvieto 1848 - Roma 1910).[2]

Cozza was a student of Giuseppe Lugli, the author of many scholarly books about Italian prehistory and the topography of Rome;[3] his best-known work is on the Temple of Hadrian.[4] He also wrote an archeological guide book to Roman antiquities, translated into several languages.

In 1957, he began the excavation, along with Ferdinando Castagnoli, of the Latin federal sanctuary at Lavinium.[5]

  1. ^ "Treccani - la cultura italiana | Treccani, il portale del sapere".
  2. ^ "Treccani - la cultura italiana | Treccani, il portale del sapere".
  3. ^ Dey, Hendrik W. (2011-05-31). The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855. Cambridge University Press. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-0-521-76365-3. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  4. ^ "Tempio di Adriano (Book, 1982) [WorldCat.org]".
  5. ^ "Lavinium -- the Mausoleum of Aeneas and the 13 altars".