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Iginio Gentile
1843–1893
An Italian scholar of antiquity, he wrote lively works on Rome and helped bring classical history and archaeology to a wider reading public. His books move between careful research and an approachable storytelling style.
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Trattato generale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte: Italica, Etrusca e Romana
by Iginio Gentile, Serafino Ricci
About the author
Born in Dongo on May 12, 1843, and dead in Milan on May 19, 1893, Iginio Gentile was an Italian historian and archaeologist who became a professor at the University of Pavia. Sources also identify him as an important figure in the study of ancient history in the final decades of the nineteenth century.
His published work focused strongly on the classical world. Treccani highlights titles including Clodio e Cicerone (1876), Il conflitto di Giulio Cesare con il Senato (1885), and L'imperatore Tiberio secondo la moderna critica storica (1887), describing his writing as serious in research while still aiming to make major people and moments of Latin civilization feel vivid to readers.
Gentile is also remembered in connection with Trattato generale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte: Italica, Etrusca e Romana. Later editions and references credit him as the original author, with Serafino Ricci revising and expanding the work after Gentile's death. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources I checked.