Efisio Luigi Tocco, architetto e archeologo nella Roma del XIX secolo / Efisio Luigi Tocco, architect and archaeologist in the 19th century Rome

Efisio Luigi Tocco was a civil architect scholar of archaeology and the protagonist of several excavations, as well as a Latinist. He spent his life between studies on ancient Roman architecture, projects and archaeological surveys, taking part in the cultural debate as shown by the significant number of published works. His activity over a period of fifty years allows us to understand many aspec ts of the culture and architecture of Italy before and immediately after its unification. Tocco, who came from Cagliari (1800 c. - 1874), lived and worked mainly in Rome and Lazio, maintaining close relationships with the cultural environments of the Kingdom of Sardinia, both in its island territories and in Liguria and Piedmont.