Gaetano d'Ancora


Gaetano d'Ancora was an Italian classical scholar and archeologist, active near Naples.

Biography

Gaetano was born in Naples and studied in Naples under Martorelli, Santoro and Campolongo. By age 18, he was teaching classical languages at the military academy in Naples. He became professor of Greek language at the University of Naples in 1799. He was well connected to other scholars across Europe and Italy. He is best known for his treatises on the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. In 1794 he published a translation of by Xenocrates.

Works

  • Memoria per l'Accademia etrusca di Cortona sulla osservanza degli antichi pel silenzio, Naples, 1782
  • , Napoli 1787.
  • , Nice 1788
  • Dei segni della verginità presso gli antichi, Montalbano 1790.
  • , Livorno 1791.
  • , Naples 1792
  • , Naples 1796
  • , Napoli 1803.
  • , Naples 1804
  • Illustrazioni del gruppo d'Ercole con la cerva scoperta in Pompei, Napoli 1805