Filippo Coarelli

Filippo Coarelli (born 1936) is an Italian archaeologist, Professor of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Perugia. Born in Rome, he is one of the foremost experts on Roman antiquities, a connoisseur of the history of early Rome, and a leading expert on the topography of ancient Rome. Coarelli was a student of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. He led the team that discovered what is believed to be the villa in which Vespasian was born.