Italo Gismondi

Italo Gismondi (August 12th 1887, Rome, Italy; December 2nd 1974, Rome) is an architect and an Italian archeologist, specialized over the Roman period.

It was allowed with the administration of Antiquities and the Art schools in 1910 and was named director of the excavations of Ostie, load which it exerted during 44 years. Of 1919 with 1938 he was also superintendent of antiquities of the town of Rome.

Ostie was the principal center of interest of work of Gismondi, which was interested particularly in the architectonic aspects of the ancient buildings.

In time that architect, it carried out many projects, of which the plan of the imperial Forums of Rome in 1933; restoration of the north-western sector of the Thermal baths of Dioclétien (1927) and other work on the Planetarium of the same complex. Between 1935 and 1971 Gismondi worked with the realization of the famous model of Rome (It Plastico) of the Museo della Civiltà Romana in EURO (Esposizione Universale di Roma). This model on the scale 1:250, represents the town of Rome at the time of Constantin at the beginning of Ive century.

In addition Gismondi worked in Italy with the Superintendence of Antiquities of the Abruzzi and of Molise, with the superintendence of Ombrie and the superintendence of the excavations of the East of the Sicily. It also undertook archaeological work in Libya, with Cyrène and in Tripolitaine.

Sources

A.M. Colini, " Italo Gismondi “Cultore di Roma” " , in Studi Romani , N. 2, XXII, aprile-giugno 1974, pp. 149ff.

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