1st Edition

An Archaeologist in Rome at the Service of the Order Letters from the Hospitaller Grand Master to Antonio Bosio (1604–1629)

By Chiara Cecalupo Copyright 2025
226 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

An Archaeologist in Rome at the Service of the Order presents the so-far completely unknown letters between the Grand Masters (Alof de Wignacourt, Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos and Antoine de Paule) and Antonio Bosio, who is well known worldwide for his extensive discoveries of the Roman Christian catacombs and was also an Agent of the Order of Malta in Rome. The letters were sent between 1604... Read more

1.      Methodological Introduction

2.      The Bosio family and its role in the Order of Malta

3.      Antonio Bosio: a biography

4.      Antonio Bosio's Autograph Documents

5.      Letters from the Grand Master to Antonio Bosio at the National Library of Malta: Transcription and translation

6.      Comments on the letters

Bibliography and archival sources

Biography

Chiara Cecalupo is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Malta. She received her PhD at the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome and has been collaborating with several research institutions in Italy, Malta, Vatican State, Germany and Spain, among others. Her main research focus is on museology and on the rediscovery of early Christian heritage in the Mediterranean basin. She has a strong interest in the history of archaeology, antiquarian studies and the reception of antiquities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.