La fonderia di Bologna. Il Ripostiglio di San Francesco nell'opera di Antonio Zannoni

Out soon for Johan & Levi

La fonderia di Bologna. Il Ripostiglio di San Francesco nell’opera di Antonio Zannoni edited by Laura Bentini

The volume dedicated to the San Francesco Hoard—one of the most important finds of pre-Roman Italy—is forthcoming in the Cahier series, reinterpreted through the work of Antonio Zannoni.

A large Etruscan terracotta vessel containing 14,838 bronze fragments and objects—ranging from finished tools to unfinished elements and materials intended for remelting—lies at the heart of one of the most significant discoveries of pre-Roman Italy. Discovered in 1878 near the Basilica of San Francesco in Bologna, the so-called hoard documents the city’s intense metallurgical activity in the Villanovan period (late 8th–early 7th century BCE). The volume revisits and contextualizes Zannoni’s work, enriched by a preface by Laura Bentini and excerpts from his excavation notebooks, alongside the 56 original photographic plates.

Since the opening of the museum, Fondazione Luigi Rovati has held a selection of the hoard’s plates on a five-year loan.

The new installation of Room Xb at the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna was made possible with the support of the Regione Emilia-Romagna, within the 2019–2021 plans of the former IBC (now Cultural Heritage Sector), together with Fondazione Luigi Rovati and the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna.